Education

Tom Horne’s$6.4 Million Giveaway

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by David Safier (TASL) The Arizona Department of Education mistakenly gave Cyber Charter Schools a total of $6.4 million in extra funding. According to two sources I spoke with at the Dept of Ed, Tom Horne decided the schools can keep the money. They don’t have to return a penny of the $6.4 million to … Read more

Desperately Seeking Teachers

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by David Safier (TASL) The Vail School District needs teachers — 34, to be exact — and they’re asking the community, please, help us find them. “I am writing to ask you to help us fill those positions with high quality people,” [Superintendent Calvin] Baker said. “Most of the best teachers we hire do not … Read more

Three thumbs up for Star, Citizen Editorials

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by David Safier In the past few days, the Star has written two strong, important editorials, one criticizing Horne’s wrongheaded ELL policies and another condemning immigrant bashing. Meanwhile, the Citizen went after Jan Brewer for the latest salvo in her unending crusade against election integrity. This kind of advocacy by our local papers deserves notice. … Read more

Arizona’s Newest Minority Group?

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by David Safier We may be seeing the emergence of a new minority group in Arizona. At the risk of being called a bigot, let me say I hope to see this group’s numbers decrease in this state and across the nation. The group I’m talking about is homophobes. The event that triggered my hope … Read more