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Poll Shows School Choice Remains Popular Across Party Lines

Aug 24, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | School choice is popular throughout Arizona across all party lines, according to a poll released by the Yes Every Kid Foundation (YEKF) earlier this month. The poll reported that both parents and non-parents across all...

Mother Alleges Laveen Elementary School District Official Attacked Her Son

Aug 20, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | This week, Danielle Jordan made her second appearance before the Laveen School District Governing Board to call for action in her son’s case from earlier this spring. Jordan spoke for approximately thirty minutes after a member on the Board first...

Arizona State University Course Makes Serious Psychological Study Of Taylor Swift

Aug 19, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | A new course from Arizona State University (ASU) will examine the psychology of mega pop star Taylor Swift: the singer, her life, and especially her lyricism. The ASU course has one prerequisite requirement: PSY 290: Research Methods. The...

Arizona Superintendent: Title IX Doesn’t Force Schools To Obey Gender Ideology

Aug 18, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne advised the K-12 community that Title IX doesn’t have any language forcing schools to obey gender ideology concerning policy on restroom, locker room, and shower facility usage. The superintendent...

Horne Continues Fight For English Language Learners

Aug 17, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction is continuing his two-front political battle with the state’s attorney general. On Monday, Republican Superintendent Tom Horne emailed the Office of the Arizona Attorney General about the...

Scottsdale School District Rolls Out Controversial RFID Trackers In Student Badges

Aug 15, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | This school year, Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) incorporated controversial RFID chip trackers in student and faculty ID badges. The district approved the chips in a close 3-2 vote in late June. Board members...

ASU Law School Permits Generative AI In Applications

Aug 12, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Applicants to Arizona State University’s (ASU) law school may have to take their admissions test on their own, but they won’t have to do their own applications. ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will now allow...

Goldwater Institute Education Expert Fact-Checks Hobbs’ ESA Claims

Aug 7, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | One of Arizona’s most-influential organizations is bringing facts to the conversation surrounding the state’s historic school choice expansion program. Last month, the Director of Education Policy for the Goldwater Institute, Matt Beienburg,...

Horne’s School Safety Task Force Focused On Getting More Armed Officers And Social Workers In Schools

Aug 5, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s schools’ chief is laser focused on protecting children in their places of education. On Wednesday, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne announced that he had “convened the first School Safety Task Force with a focus on...

62 Percent Of AZ Schools Have No Plan To Maintain Operations When COVID Relief Monies Expire

Aug 4, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Up to 62 percent of Arizona’s public-school districts and charters have no written plan for maintaining current operations once relief monies run out next September. Most districts’ lack of preparedness was revealed in an auditor...

Legislative Leaders File Emergency Motion In Federal Court To Defend Save Women’s Sports Act

Aug 3, 2023

By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s Republican Legislative leaders are continuing to defend the integrity of women’s sports in federal court. On Tuesday, Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen and House Speaker Ben Toma filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of...

ASU Faculty Asked To Be Added To Anti-Conservative Watchlist, Then Cried Foul

Aug 2, 2023

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona State University (ASU) faculty behind a campaign against the now-dissolved T.W. Lewis Center asked to be added to a watchlist of professors who discriminate against conservative students, emails reveal. Those faculty members later cried...