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
by David Safier (exclusive to El Blog for Arizona) On PBS' Horizon, Host Ted Simons interviewed Goldwater Institute's Byron Schlomach along with an ASU economist discussing the sales tax hike. Simons asked Schlomach exactly the right question about G.I.'s ridiculous claim that a 1 cent sales tax hike will cost the average family $400. Where … Read more
by David Safier (Exclusive to El Blog for Arizona) I haven't written about Tom Horne's decision to get rid of teachers whose English is heavily accented and possibly not grammatically correct. It's one of those stories that take a little time to wrap a post around, and I haven't had the time to do it … Read more
by David Safier Last week I said KGUN got it wrong when it ran this headline: TUSD to eliminate Ethnic Studies My conclusion wasn't based on insider information. It's just that I'd read a bunch of stories where TUSD officials said HB 2281, the anti-Ethnic Studies bill, wouldn't shut down the district's Ethnic Studies program. … Read more
by David Safier Back in January, I posted about Horne sending auditors to the Pima County School Superintendent's Office, then to Ajo to trace whether the Lukeville bus was transporting children from Mexico to attend Ajo schools. I said he was going to break the Educational Crime of the Century story in late April or … Read more