by David Safier Starlee Rhoades wrote The Goldwater Institute's Daily Email. It's about how ridiculous it is to vote for Prop 100, because the money won't make it into the classroom. Apparently, there's so much waste to cut in the schools, they don't need another penny. Last in the country in per student spending? An … Read more
by David Safier The feds awarded $4.69 million to 21 Arizona charter schools. The preferred schools are supposed to be those providing "challenging curricula and rigorous assessment to underserved students." BASIS received money. So did three Sonoran Science Academy schools. They're good schools, but do they serve underserved students? Do they need the extra federal … Read more
by David Safier A downtown block party. Music, food and fun to celebrate teachers. And it's free. Friday, May 7, 5:30-7:30pm, Toole Avenue between Hotel Congress and Maynard’s Market and Kitchen. And if you're a teacher, you even get to park free.
by David Safier Lots and lots of federal money is already flowing into charter school coffers. Experts are saying, we need to watch what charters are doing better than we do now: [I]n the first Congressional hearing on rewriting the No Child Left Behind law, lawmakers on Wednesday heard experts, all of them charter school … Read more
by David Safier A lengthy article in the Sunday NY Times confirmed what should be a truism by now: the best charter schools are terrific, and the worst are lousy. Taken together, comparisons of charter and traditional schools result in a wash. What's less well known is, many of the most successful charter schools are … Read more