Knowledge is Power. So is the rapidity of how that knowledge is transmitted. History recognizes the invention of the Gutenberg Press as a transformational focal point in Western Civilization where the resulting advances in literacy and the transmission of knowledge helped bring about the second half of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Age of the … Read more
Over the last couple of weeks, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is giving a lack of transparency and Mccathyite tactics new meaning at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE.) First, he and his Director of the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA,) Christine Accurso sent an approximately one-page memo to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) … Read more
Fighting for All of Us in Rural AZ Like many of us I suspect, I vacillate daily between wanting to jump in with both feet to try to save the world and just giving up because I don’t see a way out of the mess we are in. Last Saturday though, I attended a Rural … Read more
A Republican-led effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Wednesday as Sens. Manchinema, and Jon Tester (D-MT) voted with all Republicans to proceed to debate on the measure. Politico reports, Senate advances repeal of Biden’s student debt relief: On a 51-46 vote … Read more
Get ready for Alt-Fuel Fiasco 2.0. That reference (already made by legislators like Arizona Democratic Senate Leader Mitzi Epstein and former Democratic House Leader Andres Cano) to the turn-of-the-century alternate fuel state tax credit program that blew up Arizona’s revenue coffers may be repeated again with the predictable funding explosion of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (E.S.A) … Read more