11-10-15

While the Arizona Republican Assembly (AzRA) firmly believes that the K-12 District School System in Arizona was adequately funded with the $10.041 Billion (JLBC) in tax revenue – not counting non-tax revenues – it received in the last fiscal year (the highest in history), we also understand that sometimes it is time to stop the fighting and look to the future. Therefore, while we do not endorse that huge increase in taxpayer liability to a system that is dysfunctional, we…

Fatherlessness!  That’s a big word.  How would you define it, if asked?  One could use a lot of statistics to describe or explain one’s particular definition for the word.  My definition can be…

Eric Owens 11-3-15 vThe Daily Caller

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has ordered a taxpayer-funded school district in the suburbs of Chicago to allow a male transgender student who dresses like a girl and otherwise identifies as female to use the girls locker room and shower on school premises.

The feds delivered the edict against Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Ill. on Monday, …

Gilbert Watch 7-20-15

You've heard the mantra, especially from newspaper editorials around Arizona, accusing the Legislature of "disgraceful, seemingly willful abandonment of our public schools."   (See Payson Schools facing Tough Competition.)   Arizona's news editors don't want you to know the "rest of the…

Diane Ravitch 10-29-15 

Teacher and teacher trainer David Greene tells a true story about a teacher in an unnamed district.

Read it and see what you think.

“Derrick’s Story”

The other night I had dinner with a couple I’ve known for a long time. Let’s just say that one of these people is not named “Derrick,” but that’s the name I will use. It will be easy to understand why as I tell this story. The facts are correct, but I will not identify him nor identify the…

• 21 Oct 2015  Written by  Tracey Hackett…

 October 29, 2015 EAG News

VICTOR SKINNER 

KATY, Texas – Katy Independent School District officials said Tuesday an assignment that required students to label God a myth was “ill-conceived,” but now they’re walking back the…

10-27-15 Arizona Freedom Alliance…

By Rebecca Downs | October 12, 2015 

Some students at the University of Missouri are so bothered by a statue of Thomas Jefferson they’ve issued a Change.org petition to have it…

28 September 2015 The Report Card

Editor: www.thereportcard.org “Diversity” politics that is the flavor of the day on campus, is really nothing more that various groups claiming to be victims of White American imperialism, greed, bigotry and oppression. Looking for…

19 October 2015 The Report Card

(Editor: www.thereportcard.org More than two decades since charter schools first appeared in the U.S. as an experiment, they are poised to become mainstream in many parts of the country. About 2.5 million, or 5.1% of public-school students, were enrolled in about 7000 charter schools in the 2013-2014 school year, up from 300,000, or 0.7%, in 1999-2000, according to federal statistics. The…

October 16, 2015

Contact: Jake Hoffman, Communications Director, (480) 980-7020, Jake@MaricopaCountyGOP.com

Tempe, Arizona – The Maricopa County GOP is calling for sweeping reforms to school district override election laws, in order to…

Wes Harris 10-18-15

Dear Governor,

 

I but wonder who you have vetting the candidates you nominate for the various boards under your jurisdiction.  This latest one leaves us wondering if you are really interested in controlling the runaway tuition increases in our publicly funded colleges and…