by David SafierIn 2000, voters passed Proposition 301 that increased sales taxes to fund salary hikes for teachers and extras for the classroom. But there was another part as well: . . . it also contained a provision requiring annual increases by 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. That was included … Read more
by David SafierThis is the third of a series of posts going through the factoids on the Page O' Facts put together by Senate Republican Staff Policy Advisor Javan Mesnard to combat the nationally accepted assertion that Arizona is 49th in funding per student. (Here is the second in the series, if you want to … Read more
by David SafierThe NY Times has an article about conflicts between our immigration laws and our need for the best techies in the world. The story is about a valuable engineer at Google who lives in Canada. He and his wife are both originally from India, but she doesn't have a visa to live here, … Read more
by David SafierFriend of the blog Matthew Ladner has told us here at BfA that we should stop resisting and give in to the clear and obvious truth that Arizona spends $9,500 per student. It's simple. Just take every dollar spent in the name of K-12 education, divide it by the number of students, and … Read more
by David SafierI'm still getting daily emails from the Goldwater Institute — my fault, I requested them — and they're still full of whoppers. Often, I just grit my teeth because I don't know enough about the subject at hand to mount an effective argument. But when it comes to education . . . In … Read more