by David Safier I went to the "Listening and Learning" meeting with Grijalva and Arne Duncan this morning at Ochoa Elementary. Something like 20 local educational heavy hitters — superintendents, other district staff, college ed profs, etc. — sat at a round table with Grijalva and Duncan. Mainly, the local people talked while Duncan listened … Read more
by David Safier I was going to let Matthew Ladner's Monday morning G.I. email slide. It looked pretty reasonable to me at first glance. Then someone told me to take a closer look, and showed me where to look. Oops. Foolish me. Ladner questions a Republic article's figure for the number of private school students … Read more
by David SafierThis is one of a series of posts, Peeking into Charter Schools. If you have information you wish to contribute, you can post comments or email me: safier@schooltales.net. When is a non profit charter not a non profit charter? One answer could be, when it's one of Arizona's string of Imagine Schools. Imagine … Read more
by David Safier Reports of huge budget cuts in state funding are all over the news — prisons, schools, health care, you name it. According to the AZ Guardian [Note: their website is down, so I can't provide a link], Rs say that's nothing but a scare tactic. Or, as Senate Assistant Majority Leader Steve … Read more
by David Safier From an article in the Arizona Guardian: State education officials say the worst is yet to come as stimulus funds are depleted and the state struggles to fill a $1.5 billion gap in the 2010 budget. Last month, Gov. Jan Brewer asked agency directors for proposed 15 percent cuts to their budgets. … Read more