by David Safier The Star's Timothy Steller has been working on an article about BASIS Charter School, which is set to appear in the Sunday paper. BASIS has a very strong — and most probably well deserved — reputation for educational excellence. But like other charter schools in the state, it's hard to peer into … Read more
by David Safier I'm gonna keep bugging you about this all the way up to December 31. Give a public school tax credit donation to the school of your choice. Unless you disagree with the idea of tax credits to public schools — and unless your total AZ tax is less than $200 ($400 for … Read more
by David Safier Yesterday the Star published an op ed praising tuition tax credits to the skies. Today the paper ran another op ed criticizing the excesses of the program. It's good to see the Star back in the game on this important issue. The pro-tuition tax credit piece was an answer to the Star … Read more
by David Safier I just saw an op ed by friend of the blog Matthew Ladner in White Mountain Central Online. You know the drill by now. Arizona students have terrible test scores. Florida students have wonderful test scores. So here's how we can be more like Florida. And so on. Which reminded me. I … Read more
by David Safier What? You have problems with my headline? You doubt that crime is down this year — and it is, according to an FBI report — as a result of people being exposed to increasingly violent images in film, TV and video games? Look, I'm just trying to be consistent here. Every time … Read more