It makes me think I’m getting it right on Imagine Schools

by David Safier Just thinking here. I've written lots of posts about problems with Imagine Schools. Some have come from national reports and some has been based on my research into AZ DOE school funding reports and IRS tax records. I haven't received any criticism of what I've written. It's not that I've got a … Read more

Horne can’t catch a break on the left or the right

by David Safier I'm not one to sympathize with Tom Horne, but I think the guy needs a friend, and a hug, about now. Not only do people like me snipe at him from the left, but the Sonoran Alliance tore him a big ol' new one on his right flank (That's gotta hurt!) in … Read more

Reporting on Imagine School in Indiana brings results

by David Safier Remember that wonderful 5 part investigation of tuition tax credits and STOs in the East Valley Trib? And remember how the Trib reporters as well as others at the Republic kept adding to the story? And remember how all this journalistic attention led to not one, but two legislative committees looking into … Read more

STOP THE PIXELS!! THIS JUST IN! AMPHI SCHOOL FUNDING WINS!

by David Safier (Is that going to be the new newsroom scream in an increasingly paperless journalistic world — Stop the Pixels? It lacks the punch of Stop the Presses! somehow.) Anyway, yesterday I posted about an editorial Dave Perry wrote in The Explorer concerning the Amphi School funding election. I wrote this: At press … Read more

Don’t worry, college sports pay for themselves (or not)

by David Safier This from AP: Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department. The campus Academic Senate on Thursday voted 91-68 in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for an end to campus support of the Department of Intercollegiate … Read more