by David Safier Here are the dots. Feel free to connect them as you see fit. When Horne's DOE took its case against spending more on ELL education to the U.S. Supreme Court, it hired Ken Starr to plead the case. When Republican legislators needed someone to show how wonderful tuition tax credits are, it … Read more
by David Safier The pixels had barely dried on a post I wrote Friday (he said, using possibly the worst print-to-cyberspace metaphor in history) about a cheating scandal on standardized tests in Georgia, when the Republic cited the glories of Georgia's use of student improvement on test scores to determine teacher salaries. Hmmm. The article … Read more
by David Safier Pat Kossan of the Republic wrote a very perceptive article about why states have the quality of education they do. Basically, it's about the minimum education it used to take to get a job. The amount of attention and money a state dedicates to schools depends largely on how much education its … Read more
by David Safier I spotlighted a rare moment of agreement with Tom Horne below, and now I'm going to do the same for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. What a morning. The chamber cautioned lawmakers not to reduce programs where the state would forfeit even more in federal dollars than it would save … Read more
by David Safier Tom Horne said this to the folks at the Yuma Sun: "Arizona spends $6,000 per pupil but if that were increased to the national average of $8,000 per pupil, I believe we'd be among the top states in the country in test scores because of our emphasis on academic rigor." Be still … Read more