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Surprise, Surprise! The Higley School District Scandal Has Been Largely Ignored by the Media

Jul 30, 2021

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?

Jul 29, 2021

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

Jul 28, 2021

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

Jul 23, 2021

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

Jul 22, 2021

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

Jul 20, 2021

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

Jul 19, 2021

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

Jul 17, 2021

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

Jul 16, 2021

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

Jul 14, 2021

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...

The Real Problem With Critical Race Theory

Jul 13, 2021

By Richard K. Vedder,, Amy L. Wax | A growing number of parents of K-12 and high school students throughout the country have rebelled against the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) and “anti-racism” in public and private schools. The reasons for their alarm vary,...

How To Fix Politics In The Classroom? Sunlight.

Jul 12, 2021

By the Goldwater Institute | In too many of our nation’s classrooms, children are being taught that everything should be seen through the lens of race—a divisive and damaging worldview that negates the value of the individual. Instead of reading our country’s founding...