EDUCATION
Maricopa Community Colleges Gives Company $180K to Do Leadership’s Job
By Corinne Murdock | Last month, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) gave a company $180,000 to do work already within the outlined responsibilities of its leadership: future planning and creation of a new mission statement. In an email...
Mesa Public Schools Ignored Request for Data on $32.3 Million ‘COVID’ Expenditures
By Corinne Murdock | Mesa Public Schools (MPS) ignored additional requests from our reporters to obtain data on how $32.3 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds were spent. In March, MPS told AZ Free News that no records existed detailing how exactly those...
ASU Preparatory High School Program to Push Woke Ideologies on Taxpayer’s Dime
By Corinne Murdock | The latest endeavor from Arizona State University (ASU), a full-time online high school that awards university credits, offers a curriculum focused on woke ideologies on the taxpayer’s dime. The bulk of the program relies on daily seminars in...
Bill Requiring Parental Oversight of Library Books Passes
By Corinne Murdock | On Monday, the Arizona legislature approved a bill requiring K-12 schools to implement parental review and notification procedures for school library books. Specifically, HB2439 requires schools to give parents lists of the books or materials...
Phoenix High School Students Drop Masks To Participate In LGBTQ Acceptance Event
By Corinne Murdock A local high school has enforced its district mask mandate relentlessly but students dropped their masks to participate in the “Day of Silence,” or “DOS,” a day of action for LGBTQ acceptance. Pre-pandemic, students participated by taping their...
K-12 Curriculum Transparency For Arizona Parents Fails in House
By Corinne Murdock | SB1211, which would require schools to publish curriculum lists on their websites, failed in the House 28-30 on Monday. The votes weren’t panning out in the way Republicans hoped, so several legislators voted to kill the bill in order to...
Scottsdale School District’s Diversity Leaders Promote Drag Queen Storytime After Accusing Black DJ of Blackface
By Corinne Murdock | After making waves for accusing a black DJ of blackface, Scottsdale Unified School District’s (SUSD) social justice professionals marched onward with their work. In the week following accusations from Scottsdale Parent Council (SPC) Equity,...
As Its Schools Fail, Buckeye Elementary School District May Have Grossly Overpaid Superintendent
By Terri Jo Neff | The governing board of the Buckeye Elementary School District is coming under fire after the Arizona Auditor General discovered the superintendent of the 5,100-student district received about 100 percent more in compensation than the superintendents...
Acclaimed Twitter Account Warning Arizona Parents About Radical Leftists Suspended
By Corinne Murdock | This week, Twitter silenced another prominent conservative voice — this time, one relied on heavily by parents and older generations distant from today’s social media fads. Libs of TikTok, the social media account that offered parents insight on...
Woke Teacher Becomes Arizona’s First Inductee Into National Teachers Hall of Fame
By Corinne Murdock | A Phoenix special education teacher, Kareem Neal, moved up in the world of honors bestowed on educators: this year, he became Arizona’s first teacher inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. Neal, the 2019 Arizona Teacher of the Year,...
ASU College of Health Solutions Encouraged Employees to Sign BLM Pledge
By Corinne Murdock | Another social justice initiative was underfoot at Arizona State University (ASU) — this time, at the College of Health Solutions (CHS). In a September email from CHS Dean Deborah Helitzer obtained by AZ Free News, CHS encouraged employees...
Tuition And Housing Hikes Announced At Arizona’s Three Public Universities
By Terri Jo Neff | Tuition for the next academic school year is going up at Arizona State University for all students, while tuition hikes at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University will hit mostly new students, according to the Arizona Board of...
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