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Instead of Doing the People’s Business, MAGA Republicans Shut Down the Arizona Legislature for Two Weeks

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With a new fiscal year budget nowhere near completion and questions remaining on so many outstanding issues like water conservation, Empowerment Scholarship Account reforms and cost controls, funding public schools by extending Proposition 123, and making life in Arizona more affordable, MAGA Republican leadership at the State Capitol thought this was the best time to … Read more

TUSD candidate forum: What about recess and PE? (video)

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by Pamela Powers Hannley

OK, I know. The elimination of recess and physical education from our schools didn't get as much media attention as removal of some other programs, but in a country of fatties, they're just as important. 

As obesity rates among US children and adults climb, it's only common sense to find funding and time in the school day for recess breaks and physical education.

Hear the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) candidates' opinions after the jump. This is the fifth video from the Drinking Liberally TUSD candidate forum on September 26. To view all of the videos in this series, go to my YouTube channel.