A man on a mission, Phoenix Based NBC 12 News Reporter Craig Harris, in the tradition of the muckrakers at the turn of the last century, has spent the last several months broadcasting to viewers the many troubling issues with the Arizona’s one billion dollar Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA)-Private School Voucher-Welfare for the Rich Program. … Read more
With public schools opening up this month through the end of Labor Day weekend, Donald Trump, just before taking a trip to Scotland, illegally and unconstitutionally at public tax payer expense to open up a new golf course, finally released billions of Congressionally approved dollars that had been cruelly held back from public schools across … Read more
In another attack on the nation’s public schools, American Duce wannabe Donald Trump and his Know Nothing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon have (probably illegally) impounded (halted) the Congressionally approved disbursement of five federal education programs totaling $6.2 billion. According to a press release by Save Our Schools Arizona, the federal education programs impacted are: … Read more
In a surreal event probably designed to respond to a extreme right wing MAGA challenge from State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, accompanied by Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan, President of the Maricopa County Colleges Police Association/concerned parent Jim Hill and concerned parent Karen Martinson, announced that he would be … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed HB2867, a measure that, if it had become law, would have prosecuted teachers under the guise of saying they were promoting Anti Semitism. In her veto letter to Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro, the Governor touted her credititionals supporting the Jewish Community in the Grand Canyon State, including expanding Holocaust … Read more