by David Safier Horne: Butt out of local schools, La Raza program. Horne must stop grandstanding on ethnic studies. Those are the editorial headlines in the Friday Citizen and the Saturday Star. And so, for the second time this week, I find myself praising our dailies’ editorials, which, I have to say, is not my … Read more
by David Safier Today’s Daily Fitz.
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
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
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