Senate Health Care Reform Bill to Include the Public Option (Opt Out)

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today the Senate Health Care Reform bill: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the merged health care bill will include a public option allowing states to opt-out. Reid: Public Option No 'Silver … Read more

Significant changes in laws about teacher hiring

by David Safier This one got past me in the heat of the state budget problems. According to Pat Kossan at the Republic, significant changes have been made to rules about teacher contracts and firings. Republicans hated the idea that teachers had to be given pink slips by May 15 if the district couldn't guarantee … Read more

How AZ Imagine Schools deal with the school board issue

by David SafierThis is one of a series of posts, Peeking into Charter Schools. If you have information you wish to contribute, you can post comments or email me: safier@schooltales.net. I just posted about an email from Imagine Schools' CEO which says, basically: We own the schools. The school boards either should do what we … Read more

Dems vs. GOP ad

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee uses the style of Apple's Mac vs. PC ads to spoof the GOP in a new web ad: