The Invest in Ed team has been flooding the airwaves with ads singing the merits of Proposition 208 and calling on voters to vote for the pro-education funding initiative on the November 3, 2020 elections. The first ad “Yes on 208” recounts how the Arizona State Government has not fully funded education in over a … Read more
UA’s University-wide General Education Committee voted not to approve the course PPEL 101 for general education status after presentations on Sept. 16 by David Schmidtz, Director of UA’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, and David Gibbs, UA Professor of History. PPEL101 is the same course as the high school course “Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship,” … Read more
To understand Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, it is helpful to know about her background and her agenda. Amazingly, it does not directly flow from her boss, Donald J. Trump. She’s wealthy. Her life has been one of wealth through her own family and the one she married into. Her father was a billionaire; … Read more
As COVID positivity indicators decline in Arizona, the drive to offer more in-person classroom options in traditional and charter public schools has intensified. Please click here to see what districts are planning to do over the next several weeks. While the wish for everything to return to normal for public education is understandable, people should … Read more
In a week where it was reported that Mr. Trump made disparaging remarks about the nation’s bravest, the revelations that he openly chose to “play down” the severity of the Coronavirus, and the Whistleblower report that detailed his hand-picked choices at Homeland Security cherry-picking intelligence that favored the Liar in Chiefs divisive campaign themes, it … Read more