“The teachers from India had access to student records”

by David Safier When I first wrote about Arizona Virtual Academy sending student papers to India, I received a comment from “Suji” who claimed to be one of the people who worked on the papers in India. I use the word “claimed” because I have no way of knowing the identity of the commenter. However, … Read more

Is AZVA the Only K12 Virtual School Outsourcing Education?

by David Safier NOTE: This post deals with one aspect of the AZVA/K12 Inc. outsourcing topic. You can read all my posts on the topic here. If you only want to read one post, this is the one that pulls most of the threads together. Parents and interested educators in other states might direct questions … Read more

Did AZVA Send Student Names, IDs to India?

by David Safier Someone who says he scored and commented on papers the Arizona Virtual Academy (AZVA) sent to India writes that all the papers he read had the students’ names and IDs on them. This is in direct contradiction to what I was told by the former head of AZVA. She said all personal … Read more

“Nurse, Hand Me That Clamp, Scalpel, Nintendo!”

by David Safier If you walked into a hospital and saw your surgeon hunched over his Nintendo Wii, would you run out the door screaming and go on a frantic search for another doctor? You wouldn’t if you’ve read the recent research out of the Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. The physicians enrolled in … Read more