by David Safier Using phrases like "flimsy conclusion," "had to ignore the clear findings of outside auditors" and "disconnect," today's Star editorial takes Huppenthal apart for his anti-MAS decision. My favorite part is where the editorial talks about Huppenthal's press conference before the audit was released, where he pretended the audit supported his actions. The … Read more
by David Safier Now this is interesting. Yesterday the Republic wrote a story about Huppenthal's MAS decision, parroting his take on the audit. The problem was, Huppenthal pulled out the criticisms from the report, which were minor compared to the very positive conclusions he conveniently forgot to mention. A few minutes ago, the Republic atoned … Read more
by David Safier I will try — I promise — to restrain myself from using the phrase "Jonathan Butchered another education story." It will be hard, but I will try. Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner has moved on from being the Institute's education guy to working with Jeb Bush. Replacing Ladner is Jonathan Butcher. He's actually … Read more
by David Safier OK, I've given the audit of Mexican American Studies by Cambium Learning Group, which was chosen by Huppental and paid a few hundred thousand dollars to do the work, a quick but focused read. My overwhelming conclusion: the auditors worked hard, did a thorough job and came to conclusions almost completely contrary … Read more
by David Safier H/t to David Morales at Three Sonorans for posting the entire 120 page MAS audit by Cambium Learning. It's a humongous 180MB file, but Morales has also created a 5MB file — fuzzy but readable. Go with the big one if your computer can handle it. Morales also links to a new … Read more