by David SafierIf you poke around looking into Arizona school district bank accounts, you can find that they have saved up something like $330 million, according to Republican Rep. Carl Seel. That's because districts are allowed to hold back up to 4% of their funding. Great! Seel says. Let's take it! Put that together with … Read more
by David SafierThe Pew Hispanic Center says one in seven students in Arizona schools are there as the result of illegal immigration. About 100,000 of the students are citizens with one or more parents here illegally. Another 60,000 are themselves not legal residents. The study said the national figure is one in fifteen. These number … Read more
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