While education funding, through the efforts of many community and political stakeholders (including the Red for Ed Movement,) has increased in Arizona over the last several years, public schools in the Grand Canyon State still face serious obstacles in providing a quality education to the state’s children. These include: Funding levels are still below what … Read more
There is no question that Legislative 16 House Representative John Filmore has ideas on advancing state education policy. What is the question is how good they are. The Arizona Mirror and Eastern Arizona Courier, in a series of articles, has reported that the Apache Junction legislator and House Education Committee Vice-Chair has offered a series … Read more
Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman and most of the public servants entrusted with deciding which schools receive school safety grant monies in the coming weeks are pragmatic public servants that recognize that there is not a one size fits all approach to ensuring children and educators are in a safe education environment. Arizona Legislative … Read more
Of all the social indicators the people of Arizona want to lead the nation in, having a high level of child poverty is not one of them. Despite a small decrease in overall child poverty from the periods 2008/2012 to 2013/17, Arizona, according to a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Report, … Read more
Superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite. Dracula is repelled by the cross. Small children sometimes gag at the thought of having to eat vegetables at dinner. For Republicans, sponsoring and participating in town halls with actual constituents in attendance asking questions about policy and the Presidents (and their) behaviors is apparently the equivalent of Superman’s being … Read more