Voters have a choice on which direction they want to take public education for the next four years. They can choose former Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne who is running on a platform of stopping the specter of critical race theory (which does not exist in K-12 schools) from being taught in classrooms and … Read more
The Washington Post reports, How Education Dept. plans to lift 7.5 million borrowers out of default: The Biden administration has created a plan to bring 7.5 million Americans in default on their federal student loans back into good standing, restoring their eligibility for financial aid and removing the incident from their credit history, according to … Read more
Kathryn Joyce at Salon does a better job of covering this than local Arizona news outlets. Arizona’s Kari Lake celebrates BDE (um, “Big DeSantis Energy”) at right-wing lovefest: During a Sunday night political rally that began with a prayer, Arizona’s far-right Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, quickly dived into insult comedy. The former Fox affiliate … Read more
Democrats will have a great story to tell voters as they go to the ballot box in 2022. Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office, they and the Democrats in Congress have largely been the ones, starting with the American Rescue Plan, that supported en masse: COVID vaccinations. Sending checks to … Read more
Diane Ravitch published a great update on her blog yesterday, about Save Our School Arizona’s latest fight against universal vouchers and their urgent need for additional resources. Please read the post and then help support the effort by donating at, http://sosarizona.org/donate. If you live in Arizona and haven’t yet signed a petition, please go here … Read more