Private Orgs Take 10% From Private School Tax Credits
by David Safier Thanks to Slade Mead for catching this item on his blog, The Dry Heat. As an ex-State Senator and a 2006 candidate for State Ed Sup, he knows more about this kind of insider baseball than I ever will. Advertisement I’m sure you know you can get an Arizona Tax Credit for … Read more
Tucson Schools Raise Fees, Plan Tax Override
by David Safier (TASL) For the first time in awhile, I once again don my tax-and-spend mantle tassel to praise TUSD for planning a $27 million tax override for the November ballot. Half the money is to be spent on lowering class sizes. The Star estimated it would cost an owner of a $150,000 home … Read more
I’ve contracted a bad case of hope…
Recently, MoveOn.com had an Obama in 30 Seconds ad contest. One of the honorable mention winners featured a bunch of people concerned that they’d caught something, looking worried and saying "it could happen to anyone…." You think at first it’s going to be an ad for STD awareness or something. But, then you find out … Read more
AZDonkeyFeed.com Live!
Now it’s easier than ever to check out what’s happening in the Arizona political scene. AZDonkeyFeed.com is continually updated with the latest stories from the mainstream media and the blogs. One simple URL for a fresh, daily, ad free serving of blog fodder from me, BlogForArizona’s blogitor-in-chief, Mike Bryan. I read the Arizona media-scape so … Read more
More on Social Promotion
by David Safier Part 3 of the Star series on social promotion offers up some possible remedies, but as always when it comes to education, they are thin gruel. Not that they’re not good ideas and they won’t work. Not that they shouldn’t be done. But all of them have been done before. Sometimes they … Read more
Demcratic National Convention 2008, Thinks Green
by Pat Canady The Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, along with representatives from Humana (NYSE: HUM) and Bikes Belong have joined to bring 1,000 bikes to Denver for people to use during the week of the Democratic National Convention. Freewheelin is a national bike-sharing program developed by Humana and and bike industry groups like Bikes … Read more
Social Promotion: Not as New, or as Simple, as The Star Makes it Sound
by David Safier There’s so much to be written about the Star’s series that began with Social Promotion in Tucson area schools Sunday and continued with Grade Inflation today. I’m going to limit myself to one small aspect of the social promotion question. Maybe I’ll write more later. When I was taking education classes in … Read more
