by David Safier Ad for the President Obama, United We Serve and NFL Team Up fitness and service campaign. This goes out to friend of the blog Steve Gall who is trying once again to get a 30 minute mandatory recess bill through the legislature and is talking to and working at schools around the … Read more
by David Safier The Rs planned to cut $144 million in soft capital funding from district schools. The snafu Thursday only delayed the move. But now some legislators are asking, Why aren't charter schools feeling the budget ax as well? Here is among the lamest reasons imaginable for not making cuts to charters. Crandall said … Read more
by David Safier A few days ago, I posted about problems with the survey Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner used for his study about how little high school students know about Civics. It seems the company that conducted the survey, Strategic Vision LLC, has a history of complaints about their methodology and their failure to supply … Read more
by David Safier This is about Maricopa and it's about community colleges — a bit out of my usual physical and educational geography — but really, it's about a rogue members of a Board trying to use the colleges for personal and political ends, educational mission be damned. And that kind of abuse of education … Read more
by David Safier If you live in Tucson and you want to know about the tuition tax credit/STO mess, there's currently only one place to go: my posts on BfA. The Star has been AWOL when it comes to covering the story. I don't think it would take all the fingers on one hand to … Read more