by David Safier I went to the Burrito Tardeada in front of the TUSD Admin building this evening. I came a little late. A good crowd had already gathered. Curtis Acosta was giving one of his fiery speeches with the TV News cameras trained on him. I nodded, smiled and applauded as he spoke, appreciating … Read more
by David Safier This study confirms what I have found in my own research. Charters tend to spend more on administration than school districts, leaving less for the classroom. So much for the so-called "efficiency" of charter schools or the "bureaucratic nightmare" of school districts. This study comes out of the Teachers College at Columbia … Read more
by David Safier The Star's top, center, front page article is about a letter sent by former TUSD Board members to the current board. It's carefully worded to be as diplomatic as possible. Explicity, the letter asks the Board to be a bit more careful about its public statements concerning the MAS program. Implicity, it … Read more
by David Safier I haven't written much about the Quality Education and Jobs Initiative to renew the one cent sales tax, which will mainly be used to fund education, because it's fairly complex and I didn't want to get it wrong. So I sat down with Ann-Eve Pedersen, one of the driving forces behind the … Read more
by David Safier The gathering starts at 6pm Tuesday at the TUSD Admin Building, 1010 E. 10th St. In honor of Michael Hicks' comment on the Daily Show about the MAS Burrito Conspiracy — "They would, every week, go out and buy burritos and feed these kids" — it's being billed as a Burrito Tardeada. … Read more