by David Safier Color me suspicious. When the Star, then the Republic publish articles about district schools scrambling to cope with competition from charter schools — a day apart, with no specific event driving the news — I have to think both stories are being driven by an outside agenda. Wanna bet both papers got … Read more
by David Safier A front page Sunday Star article is titled, Sunnyside, TUSD work to counter charters' lure. Decent headline, I have to mention, since my post below criticizes other Star headlines. Though the story talks about students going to private schools as well as charters, charters are the main focus. Charter schools are pulling … Read more
by David Safier I was told Ed Supe Tom Horne had 3 of his auditors at the Pima County School Superintendent's Office a few weeks ago, rifling through transportation records to try and get the goods on children who may be coming in from Mexico and riding the Lukeville bus into Ajo to go to … Read more
by David Safier I'm late to post on this, but if you want to see the 10 minute video Access TV made of friend-of-the-blog Steve Gall organizing recess activities with local elementary school kids, it will be on today, Thursday, 4:30pm, on Comcast-73 and Cox-98. Steve is also working on shepherding a mandatory recess bill … Read more
by David Safier No one should be surprised to hear that schools with more low income students also tend to have low test scores. But it's still amazing to see how clearly the Arizona stats make that correlation. A reader sent me an excel spreadsheet of data he compiled from 3 public sources on the … Read more