by David Safier Public schools desperately want to stay out of the immigration battles. Administrators and teachers just want to educate the kids who walk through their school house doors and into their classrooms. I could almost hear the collective sigh of relief when the bill died that said schools have to collect data on … Read more
by David Safier Originally the resolution by the San Diego school board was going to include a travel warning. After all, "About 44 percent [of the students] are Hispanic and 75 percent are ethnic minorities." Those foolish kids sometimes forget to carry their papers when they go out, and without papers, who can tell a … Read more
by David Safier The anti-Ethnic Studies bill just signed by the Accidental Guv would have gotten little more than passing notice in the national press if it didn't come on the heels of SB1070. But the bill is getting plenty of negative attention (Arizona did it again!) and TUSD is getting positive attention for its … Read more
by David Safier Who, talking about something we do here in Arizona, said, "It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it"? Was it Raul Grijalva? Dolores Huerta? Al Sharpton? Nope, nope and nope. It was Tom Horne. And he was talking about (drum roll, please) TUSD's Ethnic Studies … Read more
by David Safier Buzz Mills, candidate for Governor, has a great plan. He wants to increase our surveillance of the border. That, of course, will cost money, so we need to cut back on less essential expenditures, like schools. And specifically, school administrators. How bad is it in our administratively top-heavy school districts? Mills tweeted … Read more