In the 2020 elections, Joe Biden won five of Arizona’s 15 counties. Three of those counties — Coconino, Maricopa, and Pima — contained virtually all of the Grand Canyon state’s major cities and suburbs. Another (Apache County) is populated by a substantial portion of the Navajo Nation. The fifth one (Santa Cruz County) borders heavily … Read more
Cash-starved school districts across Arizona need the voter’s help this November. With the fate of Invest in Ed-Proposition 208 unclear, schools transitioning to normalcy from the Coronavirus Pandemic, and a continuing teacher shortage that plagues consistent quality instruction, these districts have no choice but to ask residents for additional support by either asking for a … Read more
Supporters of public education, sound economic policy, and Democracy have less than a month to gather signatures for six ballot initiatives that would allow voters in 2022 to decide whether to repeal Republican-sponsored legislation that is designed to circumvent Invest in Education-Proposition 208, institute discredited fringe trickle-down economic tax cut policy, and obstruct Democracy by … Read more
There is, as EJ Montini headlined in an oped yesterday (August 19, 2021,) an Arizona Republican war on children. This is in addition to their separate wars on science, reality, economic sanity, and Democracy. Over the last several months, their operatives in the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the Arizona Supreme Court have: Opted to … Read more
With cases of the Delta Variant of the Coronavirus still surging, Tucson Unified School District, Phoenix Elementary School District, Roosevelt Elementary School District, and Osborn Elementary Schools have all adopted district-wide mask mandates for students, staff, and visitors. Washington Elementary in Phoenix decided to do this afternoon (August 4, 2021.) So did Creighton Elementary. Brophy … Read more