by David Safier The long wait is over. I can now declare officially, According to The Goldwater Institute, Bus Drivers are Bureaucrats. Also maintenance workers and food service workers. They're bureaucrats too. And equally officially, Teachers are not bureaucrats. How do I know? G.I.'s Matthew Ladner tells me so. Ladner says, since there are a … Read more
by David Safier I'm pleased to see the Star editorial picked up on Al Melvin's statement in the Explorer suggesting schools save money by using convict labor. The editorial wasn't kind to Cap'n Al. There are thousands of good reasons for school districts not to consider inmate labor – kids. It's one thing to clean … Read more
by David Safier I'm a day away from declaring officially, According to The Goldwater Institute, Bus Drivers are Bureaucrats. Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question … Read more
by David Safier TUSD Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen will be leaving TUSD for Colorado's Douglas County School District, according to breaking news in the Star. This is bad news for Tucson. Celania-Fagen is bright, capable and looked to be leading the district in the right direction, after years of leaders taking the district nowhere. On the … Read more
by David Safier Sigh. Still nothing in the mail from Starlee Rhoades at the Goldwater Institute answering my simple question: What does "many" mean in her sentence: "We believe the term bureaucrat accurately describes many of the employees in question and is a fair use of the term." Still no reply, even though she ended … Read more