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Salmon Calls For Arizona School Board Association To Disaffiliate From National Group

Oct 19, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Matt Salmon, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and former U.S. Representative for Arizona’s fifth district, asked the Arizona School Board Association (ASBA) to disaffiliate from the National School Board Association (NSBA). His request was...

Arizona’s Three Universities Mandate All Employees Get Vaccinated by December 8

Oct 16, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona State University (ASU), University of Arizona (UArizona), and Northern Arizona University (NAU) will require their employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8. This latest development is due to the Biden...

Inconsistencies with ASU Grad Student That Discriminated Against White Students

Oct 12, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | About two weeks ago, an incident occurred on Arizona State University’s (ASU) Tempe campus in which a group of activist students drove two students out of a study room. The two students happened to be displaying gear that could be construed as...

Arizona Department of Education Advertised 1619 Project Teacher Grants

Oct 9, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | In March, the Arizona Department of Education’s (ADE) Social Studies newsletter advertised grant funds for teachers who would implement the 1619 Project. The Pulitzer Center offered a $5,000 grant to 40 educators; applications were due in March....

Governor Ducey Spurns Biden Administration’s Threat for Funding Mask-Free Schools

Oct 6, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Governor Doug Ducey refused to heed the Biden Administration’s warning that two of his programs rewarding mask-free schooling couldn’t be using federal COVID-19 relief funds. Almost immediately after receiving the Department of Treasury’s (USDT)...

Arizona Parents Spurn FBI Investigating Pushback, Protests Against School Boards

Oct 6, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | Arizona parents promptly pushed back against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Attorney’s Offices would investigate the trend of protests against school boards and other...

Arizona’s 10-Year Anniversary Of Education Savings Accounts

Oct 2, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of education savings accounts (ESAs) in Arizona. The state’s ESA policy, formally known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, was established in 2011. As of this year, nearly a quarter of Arizona children are...

Court Strikes Down Bans on Masks, Testing, Vaccine Mandates; Critical Race Theory; and Vaccine Passports

Sep 28, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | On Monday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled that many laws passed within the recent budget were unconstitutional. Cooper stated that the legislation violated the single subject rule of the Arizona Constitution. The case,...

Arizona School Boards Association Maskless At Conference While Suing For K-12 Mask Mandates

Sep 24, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | The Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA) wasn’t strict with their mask mandate at a legal conference last week, despite their ongoing lawsuit against the state over its school mask mandate ban. Several days after the conference, ASBA pushed...

Governor Ducey Orders Flags At Half-Staff, Announces Plan To Strengthen 9/11 Education In K-12 Schools

Sep 11, 2021

PHOENIX, AZ — Governor Doug Ducey ordered flags at all state buildings be lowered to half-staff tomorrow, Saturday, September 11, in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 innocent men and women who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Also on...

University of Arizona Ranks High for Most Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Staff

Sep 7, 2021

By Corinne Murdock | The University of Arizona (UArizona) ranked high for its number of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff compared with 65 other universities. Arizona State University (ASU) ranked toward the bottom. This data was published in a study by The...

Prop 208 Ruling Destroys Narrative That K-12 Education Is Underfunded

Sep 3, 2021

By the Free Enterprise Club | For over a decade, Arizona Democrats and the education lobby have been beating the same K-12 drum- that our schools are underfunded, spending is at historic lows, and that the legislature refuses to invest more in K-12. And every...