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ASU to Host Hackathon ‘For The Social Good’, No Coding Experience Required
By Corinne Murdock | Next month, teams from all over the world will participate in the Arizona State University (ASU) “Hacks for Humanity,” a 3-day hackathon to develop socially beneficial technical solutions — but participants don’t have to have coding knowledge to...
Illegal Immigrant Children Cost Arizona Public Schools Over $748 Million in 2020
By Corinne Murdock | In 2020, illegal immigrants cost Arizona public schools over $748 million — an economic burden that will likely increase due to the ongoing border crisis. 99 percent of these funds come from Arizona taxpayers’ local and state taxes, not the...
Public School Activist Leader: Arizona Legislators ‘Maga Extremists’ for School Choice Advocacy
By Corinne Murdock | On Sunday, Save Our Schools Arizona (SOSAZ) Director Beth Lewis called four Arizona legislators “MAGA extremists,” accusing them of blocking their signature gathering efforts by protesting. “They are all extremist lawmakers who are Trumpers and...
Transgender Activist for Child Transgenderism Launching Private Phoenix High School
By Corinne Murdock | A Californian transgender woman on the board of an organization focused on normalizing child transgenderism plans to launch a private high school that grants college degrees in Phoenix next year. Ella (née Daniel) Baker, the founder of Pathways...
ASU Launches Hate Speech Surveillance With Biden Administration’s Help
By Corinne Murdock | Last week, Arizona State University (ASU) launched a hate speech surveillance campaign with assistance from the federal government. ASU’s McCain Institute received support from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Targeted Violence...
Majority of Arizona Students Continue to Fail Statewide Testing, Per Latest Report
By Corinne Murdock | The latest Arizona Department of Education (ADE) report reveals that a majority of Arizona students continue to fail the statewide assessment. This year, only 41 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) portion, while 33 percent...
Gubernatorial Candidate, Private Schooler Hobbs Vows to Undo Universal School Choice
By Corinne Murdock | Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, a product of private schools, revealed on Monday that she plans to reverse Arizona’s universal school choice if elected. Hobbs appropriated pro-school choice phrasing to describe her 13-page...
Superintendent Kathy Hoffman Sued Over Adult-Supervised, Secretive Sex Chat Rooms for Minors
By Corinne Murdock | Arizona Department of Education (ADE) Superintendent Kathy Hoffman is facing a lawsuit for advertising links to chat rooms where minors discuss sex and gender with adults present and without parents necessarily knowing. The lawsuit, case number...
University of Arizona Launches East Asia Program
By Corinne Murdock | The University of Arizona (UArizona) announced this week that it would establish a Center for East Asian Studies. East Asia includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. UArizona is the only higher education institution in...
$5 Million of Phoenix’s COVID Relief Funds Paying For Community College Tuitions
By Corinne Murdock | The Phoenix City Council gave $5 million of the city’s COVID-19 recovery funds to the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) Foundation. The millions will be distributed to around 400 students with financial need through a...
Arizona’s Top Charter Schools Allowing Boys Into Girls’ Bathrooms, Parents Not Notified
By Corinne Murdock | One of Arizona’s top charter school chains, Legacy Traditional Schools (LTS), began allowing boys into girls’ bathrooms this semester under its new “Title IX Gender Identity Policy” — and didn’t notify parents. AZ Free News spoke to...
Public School Activists Telling Petition Signers School Choice Program Has No Oversight
By Corinne Murdock | While gathering signatures for a ballot initiative overturning Arizona’s universal school choice, Save Our Schools Arizona (SOSAZ) activists informed passersby erroneously that the state doesn’t review school choice expenditures until participants...
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