Doug Ducey

Education Activists Across Arizona Gather Petition Signatures to Save Voter Approved Invest in Ed-Proposition 208

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Across Arizona, today (July 17, 2021,) Education Activists set up petition signature sites across the state to save voter-approved public education funding increases from the flat tax-cutting-anti democratic efforts of Governor Doug Ducey and the Republicans in the State Legislature. Saying “Arizonans have been loud and consistent in their support for public education funding” with … Read more

Doug Ducey’s Education Advisor has no Business Dictating Health Care Guidance to School Districts

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Governor Doug Ducey’s office has stepped in it again. This time it is over the COVID quarantine policies both the Peoria and Catalina Foothills school districts have formulated with regards to children who have not received the Coronavirus vaccination. Each district, per existing statewide and county health guidelines, wants unvaccinated children to quarantine for ten … Read more

Mental Disconnect or Political Opportunism: Governor Doug Ducey Signs Bills Authorizing Holocaust/Genocide Studies and Banning his Version of Critical Race Theory

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Is Governor Doug Ducey having a mental disconnect on some of the education bills he is signing? Or experiencing a bout of political opportunism. It is probably both along with a touch of having it both ways. The center of this recent controversy is what reactionaries on the fringe right call Critical Race Theory. If … Read more

Doug Ducey discusses his approach to critical race theory

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Doing his best to channel George Wallace, Governor Doug Ducey is banning Critical Race Theory in schools. Citing Arizona’s leadership in education, while also declaring that he is “protecting Arizonans against divisive and regressive lessons”. Let’s not forget that in 1987, Arizona’s own Governor Evan Mecham rescinded the MLK holiday and decided to offer up a “Civil Rights Day” instead, to be “celebrated” on a Sunday. This cost the state a Super Bowl and around $200 million in revenue. This resulted in our state being the last in the nation to formally accept the MLK holiday. If you just found out about this bit of trivia by reading this blog, then you also just found out WHY teaching Critical Race Theory is important.