Guns in Texas Schools

by David Safier It looks like Arizona has lost its chance for a national spotlight on allowing guns in schools. Texas beat us to it. A tiny district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings when classes begin this month, provided the gun-toting employees follow … Read more

“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