by David Safier A few more quotes from Horne’s live chat on The Star’s website. No W (shanafan): What is the status of AIMS tests for other subjects like science and social studies? Will students also be required to pass these subjects? Tom H (tomhorneaz): Science is tested in 4th grade and 8th grade, and … Read more
by David Safier You be the judge. As I write this, Tom Horne is conducting a live chat on the Star’s website about social promotion. As you know if you read my earlier post on the topic, he’s against social promotion. So I decided to ask a question, and Horne decided to answer. See if … Read more
by David Safier Thanks to Slade Mead for catching this item on his blog, The Dry Heat. As an ex-State Senator and a 2006 candidate for State Ed Sup, he knows more about this kind of insider baseball than I ever will. I’m sure you know you can get an Arizona Tax Credit for giving … Read more
by David Safier (TASL) For the first time in awhile, I once again don my tax-and-spend mantle tassel to praise TUSD for planning a $27 million tax override for the November ballot. Half the money is to be spent on lowering class sizes. The Star estimated it would cost an owner of a $150,000 home … Read more
by David Safier Part 3 of the Star series on social promotion offers up some possible remedies, but as always when it comes to education, they are thin gruel. Not that they’re not good ideas and they won’t work. Not that they shouldn’t be done. But all of them have been done before. Sometimes they … Read more