by David Safier Day 5 of my G.I. Guarantee Watch has ended, but not without some progress, if you want to call it that. I have been informed I am soon to receive an official letter from the Goldwater Institute containing the final word as to whether Matthew Ladner made an error by including school … Read more
by David Safier Thursday, March 4, is March4School Day, with events across Arizona. I only have partial information about local events. If anyone can fill in more details, put them in the comments and I'll add them to the post. Tucson EA: Rally at Reid Park – promoting the role of public schools in the … Read more
by David Safier From Steve Gall: I have intitated an advisory committee on recess called ROAR- reach out awareness for recess. We have local pediatricians supporting us and our goal is to make parents aware of the need for physical activity in the local elementary schools and how organized recess can address the problem of … Read more
by David Safier This isn't a big deal, but it's part of a frightening trend: the increasingly violence-tinged imagery of the right wing. Educator Diane Ravitch has been making news lately, because she's gone from promoting conservative educational ideas to bashing NCLB, high stakes testing and charter schools, moving to the left of Obama and … Read more
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