by David Safier As the sun sinks slowly in the west, we bid good-bye to Day 3 of the G.I. Guarantee Watch. To recap: Goldwater Institute has a Guaranteed Research policy which promises any errors brought to G.I.'s attention will be noted on its website. I brought an error to the attention of Matthew Ladner … Read more
by David Safier The bottom doesn't belong to Arizona's spending on K-12 education alone. According to a Star article about growing university tuition costs, we're at the bottom in the amount the state kicks in for financial aid to university students as well. That means students who pay full tuition subsidize those who pay less. … Read more
by David Safier An article in today's Star looks at the percent of their budgets Arizona districts spend on classroom instruction. It comes up with districts spending about 57% in the classroom, considerably lower than the proposed 65% Solution bill being pushed by Russell Pearce and his district-school-bashing cronies. When I ran the same numbers … Read more
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute has a "Guaranteed Research" policy. If the accuracy of any material fact or reference to an independent source is questioned and brought to the Institute’s attention with supporting evidence, the Institute will respond in writing. If an error exists, it will be noted on the Goldwater Institute website and … Read more
by David Safier Legislative news from today's Star: SB1097, mandating that schools submit the names of children who are not in the country legally to the DOE, was approved by its Senate committee. Another bill says the state will not give any money to schools for students not here legally, though I'm not sure of … Read more