Terrific Star editorial on Ethnic Studies
by David Safier Mark this date on your calendar. It's the day I write: Advertisement The Star editorial is the best piece on the War of Ethnic Studies I've read anywhere, period. Here are a few highlights. You really should read the whole thing. Whether one agrees with Tom Horne's opinion of TUSD's ethnic -studies … Read more
Update: The Senate filibuster reform package
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Here is a first read of the Senate filibuster reform package that Democrats will offer from Greg Sargent at the Washington Post's Plum Line, Here it is: The filibuster reform package!: Here's a copy of the filibuster reform resolution that Senate Democrats will introduce later today, sent over by an aide to … Read more
Our education future: unlimited second chances or a class-based caste system?
by David Safier One of the greatest strengths of this country's educational system — which also leads to some of its most intractable problems and its huge expense — is our system of unlimited second chances, which holds that everyone should have the opportunity to go as far in their educational attainment as their ambition … Read more
Long live The Scarp!
by David Safier When Daniel Scarpinato was putting out regular, and often infuriatingly comical, press releases for the failed Jonathan Paton campaign, I coined the term "Scarps" to describe the writing. "Scarps: Attack dog, logic-challenged rants written for Paton by Daniel Scarpinato." It looks like the Scarpster is back as the House Republicans' communication guy. … Read more
Senator Obstruction’s protege profits from selling Senate filibusters
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, has been prolific in his abuse of Senate procedure to obstruct the people's business in Congress. This Jedi master of abuse of procedure trained his former aide, Steven Duffield, in the dark side of the force. Senator Obstruction's protege is now the president of Endgame Strategies LLC, a D.C. lobbying firm … Read more
The GOP Gimmicks-R-Us Shop: The ‘Symbolic Congress’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "just say no" to everything Republican minority becomes the majority "symbolic Congress" today — symbolic in the sense that Tea-Publicans plan to hold a series of symbolic votes this year to not only reverse the Obama administration's legislative successes of the past two years but to repeal the entire 20th Century. … Read more
Huppenthal’s insists that we continue to mythologize American history
by David Safier Honestly, it's laughable, except that the man is our Superintendent of Education. John Huppenthal spoke yesterday about his visit to an Ethnic Studies classroom: "My, firsthand, classroom encounter clearly revealed an unbalanced, politicized and historically inaccurate view of American History being taught." Huppenthal, of course is a scholar of American history and … Read more
