It would be too messy to try to discipline teachers for the #RedforEd strike, but future strikes need to be headed off through clear laws and consequences.
Category Archives: State and local
Doug Ducey, the in-box governor
Ducey hasn’t really set an agenda for the state. He just handled stuff as it came up. But he didn’t do that badly.
Revealing votes by Lesko, Sinema
What kind of a conservative will Lesko be in Congress? Where is Sinema a centrist, and where isn’t she?
Douglas evolution flap is a tempest in a teapot
Even with Douglas’ edits to the science standards, Arizona students would be taught evolution and nothing else.
The fight over a Census citizenship question is mostly symbolic
There is no basis for a judge to decide which Census questions are permissible. But there’s no need for the citizenship question.
Judge charter schools on performance
Educational entrepreneurs shouldn’t be robbed of their ability, and right, to manage their creations.
Ducey, Dems should do this to prevent mass shootings
Legislative Democrats crafted a sensible proposal for a mental health injunction to deny the mentally ill with violent tendencies access to guns. They didn’t attach conditions to it until Ducey proposed something similar.
Will Arizona make a big bet on gambling?
Although the Supreme Court ruling wasn’t the victory for states rights commonly depicted, Gov. Doug Ducey had some interesting things to say in its aftermath.
Why English teachers shouldn’t circulate the tax initiative
Does “nurse” and “teacher” mean the same thing? Half the money raised by the tax initiative for “teacher” pay would go to people who aren’t teachers.
Tax initiative isn’t really about students or teachers
The Invest in Education initiative is an attempt to exploit the education funding issue to usher in radical changes in Arizona’s tax policy.