The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a horrible effect on the Grand Canyon State’s education system. An as-yet-undetermined learning gap has probably been created due to factors including: A digital divide that hit the most impoverished Arizona families at the early stages of school closures. Families opting to homeschool their children. The less than ideal but … Read more
After announcing a new tracking tool where people can access to ascertain what instructional delivery model school districts and charter schools are currently adopting during the pandemic (please click here to access,) Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman renewed her call for greater action from Governor Ducey and the State Legislature to combat COVID … Read more
When the history of how Doug Ducey and Cara Christ handled the Coronavirus is written, significant portions will be allocated to how wimpy the two of them have been because they feared the lunatic fringe of their party. The Governor displayed this at the briefing yesterday (October 29, 2020) when he acknowledged that COVID cases … Read more
With the revelation that the state may have as much as a $1.1 billion budget deficit over the next two years (as well as a reduction in sales tax revenue,) the worry that vital programs that help our most vulnerable, including children, would be on the chopping block if legislators enacted, like in the foolhardy … Read more
It is official. Children and educators will not be attending school in person for the rest of the school year. In a joint statement released by Governor Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Instruction Kathy Hoffman, they wrote: “In alignment with yesterday’s updated federal guidance, today we are announcing the extension of school closures through the … Read more