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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...

High Schoolers To Learn About Communism From GOP Lawmakers Who Survived It

Aug 2, 2023

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

Aug 1, 2023

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

Jul 31, 2023

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

Jul 30, 2023

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...