by David Safier A downtown block party. Music, food and fun to celebrate teachers. And it's free. Friday, May 7, 5:30-7:30pm, Toole Avenue between Hotel Congress and Maynard’s Market and Kitchen. And if you're a teacher, you even get to park free.
by David Safier Lots and lots of federal money is already flowing into charter school coffers. Experts are saying, we need to watch what charters are doing better than we do now: [I]n the first Congressional hearing on rewriting the No Child Left Behind law, lawmakers on Wednesday heard experts, all of them charter school … Read more
by David Safier A lengthy article in the Sunday NY Times confirmed what should be a truism by now: the best charter schools are terrific, and the worst are lousy. Taken together, comparisons of charter and traditional schools result in a wash. What's less well known is, many of the most successful charter schools are … Read more
by David Safier I really don't have anything to say other than the headline. I just like the odd string of terms and items that describe my current activity.
by David Safier AZ Blue Meanie has a post about HB 2281, the newly passed anti-ethnic studies bill. He's rightly indignant about the bill, especially since it comes from people who regularly use ethnic hatred, veiled and outright, to advance their agenda. The Meanie has it right, but the articles he cites seem to have … Read more