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Valley TeleCom Continues Offering Internet Options For Students In Rural Arizona And New Mexico
By Terri Jo Neff | In March, the Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) released a report on the pandemic’s impact across rural America, particularly after millions of people were forced to conduct most of their daily life, business, and education online. “Never before...
Phoenix Union High School District to Ignore State’s Mask Mandate Ban
By Corinne Murdock | Phoenix Union High School District (PXU) announced on Friday that they would ignore state law and implement a mask mandate, effective Monday - the first day of classes. PXU blamed the increased spread of the Delta variant for the restored mask...
Surprise, Surprise! The Higley School District Scandal Has Been Largely Ignored by the Media
By the Free Enterprise Club | Sometimes, it’s not just what the media says. It’s what they don’t say. Last week, the Arizona Auditor General concluded its financial investigation into Higley Unified School District (HUSD). And the findings of the report are mind...
What Are School Districts Trying To Hide?
By the Goldwater Institute | The public’s business should be open to the public. And under Rhode Island law, it is. Yet when mom Nicole Solas sought to attend the meeting of a publicly funded committee that meets weekly to discuss and make recommendations on policies...
Arizona’s Congressional Delegation Urged To Protect Charter School Students
PHOENIX, AZ — Governor Doug Ducey urged Arizona’s Congressional Delegation to oppose federal legislation that will jeopardize critical funding the state’s public charter schools receive and put thousands of students at risk. “I am writing to bring your attention to a...
Investigation Found Internal Controls Failed At Higley School District Due To Superintendent’s Misconduct
By Terri Jo Neff | An investigation by the Arizona Auditor General has led to criminal charges being filed earlier this month against several people involved with the building of two new schools for the Higley Unified School District in Gilbert, including the...
Parents Must Not Drop Their Guard After Scottsdale’s Apology For Inadvertent Inclusion Of Intrusive Questions
By Loretta Hunnicutt | After vigilant parents sounded the alarm about a consent form they were asked to sign electronically that would have asked their children highly personal questions, Scottsdale Unified School District leadership apologized. The District’s...
CRT, 1619 Project Grant Applications Will No Longer Receive Priority Consideration From Dept. Of Education
By Terri Jo Neff | In a partial victory for 20 state attorneys general, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) backtracked on Monday on plans that would have prioritized $5 million in grant funds for American history and civics lessons that focus on the issue of...
State Still Below Average For Residents With Degrees While Universities Award Record Number Of Them
By Terri Jo Neff | Arizona’s three public universities produced more degrees in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 than in any previous year, but the state continues to lag the national average for the number of residents with at least a bachelor’s degree, according...
Teachers’ Unions Are Radicalizing Not Educating
It is well known that America’s schoolchildren are woefully ignorant of their national history and government. Majorities of young adults no longer feel grateful to be an American, undoubtedly because they fail to comprehend the precious freedoms to which they were...
CRT Instruction Is Not New To Arizona Classrooms
By Johanna J. Haver | As a retired Arizona teacher and former member of the National Education Association, I am disgusted regarding the teachers unions’ recent solid support for instruction based on “critical race theory” – a point of view that promotes divisiveness...
Catalina Foothills, Peoria Unified Warned Covid-19 Quarantine Policies Unlawful
On Wednesday, the Governor’s Office notified the superintendents of Peoria Unified School District and Catalina Foothills School District that their policies requiring quarantine for unvaccinated students who have been exposed to COVID-19 are illegal. READ: Our office...
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