by David Safier This is a shocker to me. Florida's legislature passed a bill that "would have abolished tenure for new teachers and instituted strict merit pay guidelines," which teachers and many others oppose mightily. And Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed it. The bill is similar to the one Arizona teachers and others are fighting that … Read more
by David Safier From the Arizona Education Association, the provisions of HB 2227 that just passed Arizona's House and Senate: Permits school districts to reduce the salary of any teacher in any manner and at any time. Prior law said that continuing teachers’ salaries may be reduced only if there is a general salary reduction … Read more
by David Safier Today's Fool's Gold edition isn't about the iron pyrite the Goldwater Institute usually tries to pass off as the real thing — ore that glitters like gold but is actually worthless. This is so blatant, it borders on the comical. Matthew Ladner has taken a garden variety stone and glued on a … Read more
by David Safier No need to write about the jaw dropping specifics of public school budget cuts here. You can read 'em and weep elsewhere. Here are two other bits from today's Star. TUSD's Supe, Elizabeth Celania-Fagen, is leaving. The reason she cites in her letter: "as the state budget reductions to education in Arizona … Read more
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute's lead litigator, Clint Bolick, wrote a book, "Voucher wars: waging the legal battle over school choice," published by the Cato Institute. In the introduction, Bolick calls the forces who are pushing for school vouchers part of a "freedom movement": It is a freedom movement because it involves challenging one … Read more