by David Safier Day 4 of my G.I. Guarantee Watch has come and gone, and still no word from Matthew Ladner or Darcy Olsen of the Goldwater Institute about honoring G.I.'s Guaranteed Research policy. You can go to the Day 3 post to get all the information about Matthew Ladner's error which led me to … Read more
by David Safier Jason Williams and Penny Kotterman are traveling around the state wooing Democratic voters for their Superintendent of Education primary candidacies, making their cases based on their bios and their stands on the issues. Williams just sent out a press release explaining his campaign platform, which makes this a good time to look … Read more
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