by David Safier Al Melvin wrote an op ed in this week's Explorer telling people to give tax credit money for public schools and private school scholarships. It's pre-election touchy-feely time when Melvin has to burnish his "I'm just a guy who cares about people" credentials. Well, he inadvertently took his caring a bit farther … Read more
by David Safier The problem with for profit education is . . . it's for profit. Anyone who's looking to make a buck off of running schools has a constant conflict of interest between the students' best interest and the bottom line. Case in point. The University of Phoenix has to pay $48.5 million to … Read more
by David Safier It almost looks like Lisa Graham Keegan and I agree. Almost. She has an op ed in the Republic praising the paper for its discussions of the problems with tuition tax credits. I am extremely grateful to editorial writer Doug MacEachern and The Arizona Republic for clearly defining in 2009 the intended … Read more
by David Safier Imagine my surprise as I was reading through NY Times' 9th Annual Year in Ideas in its Sunday Magazine, when I came across the item, Forensic Polling Analysis. It's about uber-statistician Nate Silver's analysis of polling data from Strategic Vision LLC, in which he comes to the conclusion that the company makes … Read more
by David Safier Two posts below praise the Republic (highly) and the Star (tentatively) for what they've written about tuition tax credits the past few days. But the East Valley Trib's editorial got it as wrong as the other 2 papers got it right. I understand there's a the wall between the reporting and editorial … Read more