by David Safier TUSD Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen will be leaving TUSD for Colorado's Douglas County School District, according to breaking news in the Star. This is bad news for Tucson. Celania-Fagen is bright, capable and looked to be leading the district in the right direction, after years of leaders taking the district nowhere. On the … Read more
by David Safier Sigh. Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term." Still no reply, even though she ended … Read more
by David Safier Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term." I'm beginning to think I've been stood up. … Read more
by David Safier In an article in today's Explorer, Al Melvin says one way to deal with school budget problems is to bring convicts into the schools to do maintenance work. [Melvin would] like to see school districts and other local governments use inmate labor to maintain school buildings, bus fleets and grounds. This week, … Read more
by David Safier Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term." J.D. and G.I. share a trait with others … Read more