Off The Bus in AZ: Marlene Phillips reporting
If you’re a Huffington Post reader you may have noticed a new section called Off The Bus. Their goal: to encourage citizen reporters to weigh in with election news from all 50 states. Well, southern AZ., meet your citizen reporter. As one of the Off The Bus reporters I’ll be contributing pieces to Huff Post … Read more
McCain Ranch: Georgia on His Mind and Putin in His Sights
by David Safier Hey Poo-tin, you big Rooskie bear, here’s a taste of a good ol’ American knuckle sandwich with plenty o’ McCain mustard on it! You got some larnin’ to do about the code of the west, fellah. You tangle with mah partner in Georgia, you gonna find yourself tanglin’ with me — me … Read more
Is AZVA the Only K12 Virtual School Outsourcing Education?
by David Safier NOTE: This post deals with one aspect of the AZVA/K12 Inc. outsourcing topic. You can read all my posts on the topic here. If you only want to read one post, this is the one that pulls most of the threads together. Parents and interested educators in other states might direct questions … Read more
Irony Alert: “Attend a Virtual School” Ads on BfA
by David Safier A friend told me he’s seen ads for Arizona Virtual Academy on Blog for Arizona lately. I have to admit, I never look at the ads, so . . . No, I didn’t mean it! I not only look at them, I buy everything they tell me to buy! Keep those ads … Read more
Keeping Faith With the American People: Ending the War in Iraq
by John Adams Critical to Democratic prospects in November, as well as to our country’s future, is keeping the commitment to the American people to end the war in Iraq. Yet there exist so-called “democratic realists” (some of whom are also Democrats, cousins of the “neoconservatives”…you know, those guys who wanted to “liberate” Iraq and … Read more
Our Southern Border Policy Lacks Cohesion
By Karl Reiner The U.S. government’s effort to improve security along the Mexican border is delivering results. The combination of towers, physical barriers, better intelligence and an increase in the number of agents has made the crossing more difficult. As a consequence, the number of arrests made by the Border Patrol is down approximately 12%. … Read more
Did AZVA Send Student Names, IDs to India?
by David Safier Someone who says he scored and commented on papers the Arizona Virtual Academy (AZVA) sent to India writes that all the papers he read had the students’ names and IDs on them. This is in direct contradiction to what I was told by the former head of AZVA. She said all personal … Read more
