by David Safier The "Which right wing group is going to hire soon-to-be-ex-Rep Terri Proud?" game is over. She's the Executive Director of 4Tucson. From the About 4Tucson page: 4Tucson, a nonprofit organization, was founded in 2009 in Tucson Arizona by a local pastor, Mark Harris. Mark was brought together by locals with a common … Read more
by David Safier Russell Pearce wants everyone to know he loves education and education loves him. So he put this yellow banner on top of his sign (h/t Phoenix New Times’ Feathered Bastard.) I guess they ran out of space, so they had to leave the “a” out of “education.” The award, by the way, … Read more
by David Safier Lately I've been focusing most of my education-related efforts on Imagine Schools and their many problems (Here's Part 11 of my series of recent posts). But I've kept close tabs on K12 Inc., the publicly traded, for-profit online charter school corporation. Their local charter, Arizona Virtual Academy, is currently on academic probation … Read more
by David Safier NOTE: This is the eleventh in a series of recent posts examining Imagine Schools. (Here are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.) If you have ideas or information to add, please leave comments at the end of the post or email me at safier@schooltales.net. I keep all … Read more
by David Safier So much for my predictive powers. Yesterday I wrote, "most probably the book ban will be lifted." Today I read Stegeman pulled his proposal to lift the ban because he knew he didn't have the support. Members on both sides of the MAS aisle, Adelita Grijalva and Michael Cuevas, opposed the measure. … Read more