by David Safier Otherwise, I'd be running out of room to save all the articles about the MAS controversy I come across. It's being covered nationally and internationally, blogs and traditional news media. This story isn't going away. Did the folks at TUSD do any serious strategizing about this? Did they wonder what might happen … Read more
by David Safier OK, this one is just for fun. I was watching Rachel Maddow a few minutes ago. She was talking about the satirist who created the term “self deportation” in California a few years back to take the state’s proposed draconian deportation laws to their logical extreme, the kind of thing satirists love … Read more
by David Safier There's a wonderful column by Gary Younge in the UK Guardian about the MAS controversy. It's worth reading the whole thing, but I'm going to jump around the column as I include a few excerpts in this post. First, the head/subhead: Whitewashing Black History MonthArizona's suppression of Mexican American studies fits a … Read more
by David Safier Sherman Alexie, a Native American who grew up on the Spokane Indian reservation and is a marvelous writer with a wide readership, commented about TUSD's book ban. First his tweet: Here is his longer statement: Let's get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, … Read more
by David Safier Rich Crandall's latest argument for his bill making it optional for school districts to participate in the federal free/reduced lunch program: Everyone will continue to participate, so it won't make any difference. Crandall, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, said he hasn't heard from a single district in the state that would … Read more