by David Safier The Arizona fight over ELL funding is going all the way to the Supremes. The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to step into a long-running lawsuit in Arizona over funding for services to English-language learners. The justices accepted appeals from legislative leaders and the state schools superintendent of lower-court rulings that Arizona … Read more
by David Safier Here's a story that feels good and probably is good. The long awaited day to give computers to freshmen at Desert View and Sunnyside High School arrived, and 505 students are now proud owners of brand spankin' new HP laptops. Here's how the program works. To earn a laptop, they had to … Read more
by David Safier This is a preemptive rant. I fear Democratic legislators will get all squishy when budget discussions roll around and concede to the Republicans that, yes, our current budget crisis means we have to make some cuts to our education budgets. Don't do it! I've already heard rumors that, during the budget talks … Read more
by David Safier Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing everything in his power to save California education. Like: Eliminating a week of school. Increasing class size. Freezing teacher salaries. Cutting the science graduation requirement from two courses to one. Cutting $2.1 billion from this year's education budget and $3.1 billion from next year's. Boy oh boy, is … Read more
by David Safier I'm starting with a bit of a rant, then I'll get to the main topic. When young people go into debt, we're told it's because high schools didn't teach them the dangers of overspending on their credit cards or taking out loans they can't afford. Except that it isn't true. When I … Read more