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Horne’s School Safety Task Force Focused On Getting More Armed Officers And Social Workers In Schools
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
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
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
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...
High Schoolers To Learn About Communism From GOP Lawmakers Who Survived It
By Corinne Murdock | High schoolers will learn from firsthand experiences of the evils of communism in a documentary series featuring two Arizona lawmakers who survived it. The series, produced by the University of Arizona (UArizona) Center for the Philosophy of...
Horne And Hobbs Continue To Tussle Over ESA Issues
By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s Democrat Governor and Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction continue to trade political volleys over the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program. Last week, Governor Katie Hobbs transmitted a communication to the...
Arizona Lawmakers Square-Off On Student Loan Debt Cancellation
By Daniel Stefanski | A coalition of Arizona lawmakers are pushing back against the recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation efforts. Earlier in July, a group of Arizona Democrat legislators wrote a letter to...
ASU Leaders Quiet On Allegations Of Retaliation By Ex-Employee
By Corinne Murdock | Arizona State University (ASU) leaders accused of retaliation by a former employee for hosting two "faith-based" events have kept quiet on the allegations raised against them.The former events operator of the ASU Gammage theater alleged...
Horne Challenges Mayes’ Concerning ESA Message To Parents
By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction and Democrat Attorney General are again at opposite ends of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program. On Monday, Superintendent Tom Horne responded to Attorney General...
Federal Judge Blocks Arizona Save Women’s Sports Act
By Daniel Stefanski | A federal judge has issued a ruling in a case involving Arizona’s recently passed Save Women’s Sports Act. On Thursday, Judge Jennifer Zipps, in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, granted a preliminary injunction...
Horne Slams Mayes’ Opinion On Dual Language
By Daniel Stefanski | Arizona’s Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction is pushing back after the state’s Democrat Attorney General issued a legal opinion on a Structured English Immersion law. On Tuesday, Superintendent Tom Horne issued a press release to...
ASU President’s Special Advisor: Affirmative Action Will Exist In Other Ways
By Corinne Murdock | The special advisor to the president for Arizona State University (ASU) said that universities can achieve their diversity goals despite the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling against affirmative action last month. The special advisor,...
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