Linda Lyon

Linda Lyon retired from the Air Force as a Colonel in 2007 at Andrews AFB, Maryland where she served as the Mission Support Group Commander (city manager) for a community of 20,000. After retirement, she was a program manager for a large logistics contract for the Department of Energy and then deputy program manager for L-3 Communications on the Secure Border Initiative. She moved to Arizona in 2008 with her wife, Hollace and since then, managed a non-profit, helped establish the Oracle Schools Foundation, and worked on multiple political campaigns. Linda is in her 11th year on the Oracle School District Governing Board and is a past-president of the Arizona School Boards Association.

Fighting for All of Us in Rural AZ

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Fighting for All of Us in Rural AZ Like many of us I suspect, I vacillate daily between wanting to jump in with both feet to try to save the world and just giving up because I don’t see a way out of the mess we are in. Last Saturday though, I attended a Rural … Read more

McCarthy’s Faux Concern for Children

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As reported by the Associated Press, “House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday said Russia must pull out of Ukraine, blistering Russia’s ‘killing of the children’ and “emphatically stressing his support for Ukraine”. Responding to a Russian reporter, he said, “I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine, I do not support your … Read more

The Point of Vouchers

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Improving Educational Outcomes is Not the Point of Vouchers. In 2017, I wrote a post on RestoreReason.com titled “Vouchers: Some Common Sense Questions” that supported this fact. I’ve included some of the original post below. My updated comments, now six years later are included in italics below. Just for a few moments, I’d like to … Read more

Stop Diverting Our Public Education Funding!

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The GOP loves to tout free enterprise But they sure don’t have a problem diverting public education funding to private schools. As reported in the AZ Daily Star this morning, Rep. Matt Gress, R-Phoenix, is pushing a bill to once again divert taxpayer dollars to private schools. This time, the goal is to provide scholarships … Read more

(Update) A Crack in the Privatization Movement?

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The BASIS Tucson North charter in Oro Valley voted to unionize this past Wednesday night. By a 2 to 1 margin, teachers voted to found a local union chapter of the Arizona Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff. This charter is now the first in Arizona to have staff join a union, an affiliate of … Read more