Conflicting feelings about Chavez charter closings
by David Safier On the one hand, Arizona exercises far too little oversight of its charter schools. The good schools don't need much in the way of oversight, but charters that slight the students through poor educational practices, misuse of funds or both need to be improved or shut down. Advertisement And by far the … Read more
The coming week – legislative edition
Posted by Craig McDermott OK, so I said that last week's lege schedule post would probably be the last free-standing one of the year. I was wrong. 🙂 As usual, all info gathered from the website of the Arizona Legislature, except where noted, and subject to change without notice. For the most part, committees other … Read more
Bus drivers are administrators?
by David Safier I finally got around to watching last week's debate on Prop 100, which aired on KUAT, between Ann-Eve Pederson from the Arizona Education Network and Farrell Quinlan, the Arizona State Director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. I'm not going to comment on the debate itself except to say Pederson handled … Read more
The nature of the [RINO/Elephant] beast
by David Safier This is too good not to share. It's a Wild Kingdom-style video featuring Tom Horne as a RINO (It's called "The Horne of a RINO." Get it?) and Andrew Thomas as a RINO-toppling elephant. Across the country, Republicans are creating these over-the-top web videos, usually turning their Republican opponents into some kind … Read more
May Special Election: Early Voting Begins This Thursday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Courtesy of F. Ann Rodriguez, Pima County Recorder: Election Day: May 18, 2010 SPECIAL STATE-WIDE ELECTIONandTown of Oro Valley Election Early Voting Sites will be located at:Oro Valley Town Hall (Oro Valley Voters ONLY)11000 N. La Cañada Drive – Oro Valley, AZ 85737 – 520-299-4700 Pima County Recorder’s Office … Read more
Russell Pearce, “Legislator of the year”
by David Safier Here it is: [S]tate Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, was on stage accepting the Legislator of the Year award from the pro-free-market group Americans for Prosperity. Here's the context of that line, which makes things a bit more complex: The tea party gathering Thursday at Tempe Diablo Stadium showed the wide range of … Read more
About that “poll of Tea Partiers”
by David Safier I've been hearing the stats from this week's NY Times/CBS News poll about the demographics and attitudes of Tea Partiers. At least, that's how I've interpreted the results — as a polling of people active in the Tea Party movement. Wrong. The stats are from a phone poll where people were asked … Read more
