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A public school teacher responds
November 27, 2009
by David Safier I received this comment on a post I wrote about some of the changes affecting teachers that were thrown in with the latest round of budget cuts. I'm a teacher in the Tempe Union school district, and I now have my eye on the exit signs because of this. Which I'm sure
Happy Thanksgiving
November 26, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the traditional playing of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited). Enjoy.
Rep. Ray Barnes’ angry ignorant rant
November 25, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I briefly touched upon the comments of Rep. Ray Barnes during the recent special session in an earlier post, i.e., he said that the state could file for bankruptcy (as I explained, no, it cannot). I had not seen Rep. Barnes' extended comments at the time. It turns out this whopper was part
Will the last person to leave please remember to turn out the lights
November 25, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona has gone from Governor Janet Napolitano and the Republican legislature enacting a ten percent income tax cut in 2006-07 to give back a tax surplus because "it's your money," to a state in economic free fall and financial collapse in 2008-09. As anyone who attended school in Arizona from the 1950s
We have one private school participant
November 25, 2009
by David Safier I received an email this morning from a teacher at an Arizona independent school who is planning to ask his students if they were surveyed for the civics test Goldwater Institute used to create 3 separate studies comparing high school students attending public and private schools. The question is, was the survey
Black Friday Madness: Remembering Jdimytai Damour
November 24, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: While I was trying to enjoy a rare night of television on Monday night, I was constantly barraged by television ads from major retailers for their "Black Friday" sales: Open at 5 a.m.! Open at 4 a.m.! Open Thanksgiving Day! After the tragic trampling death of Jdimytai Damour, a part-time security worker at a Long
Any private school teachers or adminstrators reading this?
November 24, 2009
by David Safier More on the survey results used for the G.I. civics study (No, I'm not obsessed, just very interested). Here's a way to get closer to finding out whether Strategic Vision LLC actually completed the survey for G.I. and didn't just make up the results. It can be worth a $25 gift card
More on civics survey data
November 24, 2009
by David Safier I don't know if Matthew Ladner is working from his end to discover whether or not the public school/private school survey he commissioned from Strategic Vision LLC was legit or fraudulent. But I have to say, he's been very forthcoming with documentation. I asked him if he would give me the raw
