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Scottsdale Unified School Board Shuts Down Parents, Describes Them As “Mob”
By B. Hamilton | The Scottsdale Unified Governing Board canceled its meeting on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021, according to Board President, Jann-Michael Greenburg, because of “a belligerent mob.” Greenburg was referring to the parents who had come to the meeting hoping to...
“There Is a Bounty On Our Children”: Peoria Mothers Light Up School Board Members
By Corinne Murdock | A coalition of Peoria mothers descended on a Peoria Unified School District (PUSD) Governing Board meeting last week to demand an end to critical race theory (CRT) influences in the classroom. Near the end of their public remarks, one mother...
Peoria Teachers Bribed With Amazon Gift Cards To Indoctrinate Students In Online Social Justice Curriculum
By Corinne Murdock | An online social justice curriculum funded by Big Tech giants, EverFi, promised $15 gift cards to teachers who successfully got other teachers to start their students on one lesson. According to an email obtained by the AZ Free News, Peoria...
Senate Committee Passes Revised Sex Ed Parental Rights Bill
By B. Hamilton | On Thursday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, in a party line vote, approved HB 2035, legislation that will strengthen parental input in the Sex Education curriculum offered to their children. A previous version of the bill, SB 1456,...
Bolick Tweet Points Out Hypocrisy Of Supporting Private Companies In Elections But Not Education
By Terri Jo Neff | Rep. Shawnna Bolick says a tweet she wrote Wednesday was not intended as a commentary on the Senate’s ongoing audit of Maricopa County’s election process. Instead, she was simply trying to draw attention to a double-standard by many state Democrats...
Goldwater Report Finds School Funding Not Getting To Classrooms, Teachers
By B. Hamilton | Two topics that arise year after year, teacher’s salaries and public-school budgets, are often misunderstood and misrepresented. In fact, many say the RedForEd movement was created and nurtured with those misunderstandings and misrepresentations. The...
Republicans Join Democrats To Force Vote On In-State Tuition For Students In County Illegally
On Monday, the Arizona House passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1044. The resolution allows voters to decide if students who are in the country illegally but have attended for two years and graduated from an Arizona high school can be eligible for in-state...
Arizona School Board Association Defends “Deification Of Whiteness” Speaker
By B. Hamilton | The Arizona School Board Association (ASBA) held The Equity Event April 21st – 23rd. Among the keynote speakers was the founder and lead facilitator of Social Centric Institute, Calvin Terrell. ASBA is the primary source for policies adopted by public...
Holocaust Education, IHRA And Anti-Semitism In Arizona
By Paul Miller | House Bill 2241 requires Arizona students to be taught about the Holocaust and other genocides twice between seventh and twelfth grades. Although the bill passed unanimously in February of this year, at issue is a proposed Senate amendment...
Is Critical Race Theory Coming To A Public School Near You?
By the Free Enterprise Club | They’re at it again. You would think that public school districts would learn their lesson at some point. After all, many of them turned their backs on students and parents in the wake of COVID-19. And now, those school districts are...
School Districts Respond To Mask Mandate Controversies As Outsiders Are Accused Of Political Manipulation
By Terri Jo Neff | The Vail School District abruptly cancelled its Tuesday night board meeting after nearly 200 people showed up to push for an end to the district’s mandatory mask policy for staff, volunteers, and 13,500 students. Deputies with the Pima County...
Rally Draws Support For Police, Minority Unification Amid Push For Student Scholarship Expansion
By Terri Jo Neff | Many attendees at Monday’s “Unification Rally” outside the Arizona State Capitol held signs which read “Unity - Protect and Educate Our Children” while speakers talked about bringing together law enforcement officials and religious leaders to build...
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