by David Safier (TASL) State colleges and universities nationwide are becoming less affordable, meaning that families have to spend an increasing percentage of their incomes to pay for tuition. The increases include community college tuition, which is a crime. Community colleges should be as close to free as we can make them. Meanwhile, to cut costs, … Read more
by David Safier Give money to a public school for free! Really! It won't cost you a penny! Do it before December 31 and get 100% back when you file your state taxes! This is for real. All of you who believe schools are underfunded should do it. Remember, it won't cost you a penny, … Read more
by David Safier Here's part of an email I received today from Voices for Education: Please call your legislators and urge them to NOT cut any funding to publicschools. Cuts to K-12 Education shouldn't be the first place we look toaddress the budget shortfall. The Arizona Legislature is going into special session on the state's … Read more
by David Safier It looks like funding for Arizona public education will be cut as part of budget balancing. I'd say this is a race to the bottom, but Arizona is already there — either 49th or 50th in per pupil school spending. Maybe we'll get lucky and state number 47 48 is in an even … Read more
by David Safier Yesterday I wrote about an online, 33 question Civics Quiz you can take to see how much you know about general U.S. civics and history. Today I saw a breakdown of scores by age on Kevin Drum's blog. I don't want to read too much into this. It's not a good random sample … Read more