by David Safier The UK Daily Mail wrote an article about the gangsta letter (i.e., the students are gangsta wannabes) sent by substitute teacher Tony Hill to Russell Pearce and read on the floor of the senate. The story has big photos of Steve Gallardo, Russell Pearce, Andrew LeFevre (ADE spokesman), along with a scenic … Read more
by David Safier The Arizona Education Network (AEN) notes that a letter to legislators from Arizona business executives was a primary reason five recent anti-immigrant bills were defeated. So why shouldn't CEOs who support education do the same to stop the cuts to K-12 schools and higher ed? AEN has made it easy for you … Read more
by David Safier As Al Pacino [kind of] said in Godfather 3, "Just when I thought Matthew Ladner was out, he pulls me back in again." Ladner is now a "Senior Fellow" rather than an employee at the Goldwater Institute since he moved on to work for Jeb Bush's so-called "Foundation for Excellence in Education," … Read more
by David Safier I'm happy to say, I've never been in one of those Good Cop, Bad Cop situations where one cop threatens to beat the crap out of you, then the other steps in and "saves" you. But what we're getting out of the Russell Pearce/Jan Brewer confrontation sounds pretty close to the scenes … Read more
by David Safier
The Save Ethnic Studies group just put out a news release objecting to the upcoming audit of TUSD's Mexican American Studies program. Much of the argument against the audit is on legal grounds: interviews with students could violate their rights to privacy under the Family, Educational and Privacy Rights Act of 1974; and since MAS teachers and the program director have pending litigation concerning similar issues, the audit sponsored by the ADE will be problematic if it tries to communicate with "a represented party."
These types of issues are way above my pay grade, so I'm including the entire news release after the jump.