Today’s Ducey press conference was not the disaster last weeks was (although he really had nowhere to go but up in performance.) Armed with data, backed by organizations like CNN, the New York Times, and Johns Hopkins University that the COVID 19 situation in Arizona may be stabilizing and starting to decline, a more confident … Read more
The Arizona Democratic Party hosted a press call “on Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s reckless threat to force schools to reopen without a plan to keep students, families, teachers, and staff safe.” Ms. DeVos, the Secretary of Education, will be in Arizona tomorrow to attend a closed-door virtual meeting of the Federalist Society. Apparently meeting … Read more
Fellow Blog of Arizona writer Carolyn Classen first reported on this event on July 9, 2020. Yesterday (July 13, 2020) a group of school board members, including Maricopa County School Superintendent Candidate Jeanne Casteen, and health specialists took a letter to Governor Doug Ducey to recommend that he delay the reopening of in-person instruction in … Read more
Andy Biggs and the rest of the Science Denying Freedom Caucus are at it again and this time they are willing to gamble on the health of school children. Over the last week, the Arizona Congressional District Five Representative and Freedom Circ…Caucus Chair has tweeted (several times)his enthusiastic and uninformed agreement with equally ignorant Donald … Read more
Everyone wants schools to reopen. Everyone agrees with the goals of the American Academy of Pediatrics which says students fare better with in-person instruction and classroom attendance. Children want to be with their friends in the classroom learning and interacting. Teachers and Principals want to serve the community and fully help children learn and succeed. … Read more