Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman had a good first year in 2019. Through hers and others in the Governor’s office, the State Legislature, and Pro Education and Children Advocacy groups, Arizona education took forward strides in the last year. These include: Increased funding for schools. The reduction of self-contained ELL Instruction from four … Read more
How far would $125 to $175 thousand go in a typical Arizona traditional or charter public school district? Well, it could pay for about three or four full-time school teachers. It could pay for three full-time counselors. Remember close to 300 schools just submitted approximately $100 million in grant applications to the Department of Education … Read more
Kathy Hoffman is in her sixth month as Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. In that time, she has demonstrated strong leadership towards improving Arizona’s public schools by endeavoring to make them safer, addressing the teacher shortage that plagues the state, championing increased funding for education, advocating for greater accountability, transparency, and oversight in all schools … Read more
Earlier in the week, it was reported by multiple sources that Navajo students in Window Rock, spurred on by the right-wing pro voucher Education group called the American Federation for Children, used the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) they qualified for to enroll in a private school (Hilltop Christian School) two miles inside New Mexico. This … Read more
At the beginning of the Arizona State Legislative session, the primary goal of the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) was to thwart the attempts of the Reactionary Republican legislators to expand Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA’s) after voters rejected that idea by voting down Proposition 305 in November 2018. Their efforts, with the assistance of others … Read more