Americorps, the Clinton/Gore Era National Service Program, was envisioned as a domestic version of the international Peace Corps to help vulnerable populations in the United States. When I had my charter school, we required students to participate in service learning projects around the community. Some of the projects dealt with cleaning up elderly people’s homes, … Read more
Fresh off signing a bipartisan agreement and legislative victory to fund the Division that will assist children with disabilities, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs celebrated the creation of 3,000 construction job apprenticeships and announced the recipients of the second round of BuilditAZ Initiative Grants, totalling one million dollars from the Office of Economic Opportunity, that will … Read more
After weeks of partisan divisiveness, Democrats and Republicans in the Arizona State House banded together to pass, in a large bipartisan 48 to 11 vote, HB2945: supplemental funding for the Division of Developmental Disabilities. This vote will, as Appropriations Chairperson David Livingston said, “Help save lives.” The final House Bill included compromises that both sides … Read more
When Hitler came to power, his Anti Semitic policies and denunciation of physics, calling it “Jewish Science,” caused a seismic shift in education and science global leadership. With Nazi and, to a lesser extent, Fascist Italy dictatorial and racist policies, scientists like Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi fled the countries of their birth. … Read more
In a speech filled with tributes to families, colleagues and friends, a list of accomplishments during her tenure, and a desire to steer the fifth largest city in the country toward tomorrow, Kate Gallego was sworn in for her second term as Phoenix Mayor earlier today. Urging her colleagues on the City and in the … Read more