Friday, February 5th, 2010
Remarks at Save Adult Education Rally
Richard Elías, Pima County Supervisor:
Eva Carrillo Dong, Member, Sunnyside School District Board
Juan Martínez, a GED recipient
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Save Adult Education Rally
A rally will be held today at 5:00 at El Rio Neighborhood Center to support adult education and GED testing, both of which are eliminated in Jan Brewer’s budget. The El Rio Neighborhood Center is at 1390 W Speedway, between Grande and Silverbell.
It would surprise many people to know about the number of people who [...]
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Conservatives Throwing Money at the Problem
Monday mornings I usually do a thing called “What was weak last week” where I sum up some stories from the past week that I missed out on commenting on for one reason or another.
I’ve only got one this morning that really begs for comment. You may remember that Democratic representatives were trying to put [...]
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Pima County Democrats Support Override
The Executive Committee of the Pima County Democratic Party passed a resolution the other day in support of a budget override in TUSD. Remember that the legislature’s plans on the equalization tax (which could be revived given the current situation) would make it nearly impossible for school districts to ask their voters for an override [...]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
More Fun Today
I read that Russell Pearce yesterday called TUSD’s ethnic studies program “garbage.” He can say this with great authority having travelled to Tucson to sit in on the class and familiarizing himself with the cirriculum.
Are you saying he didn’t? Are you suggesting that Pearce just made up a list of pseudofacts to suit whatever his [...]
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Whoops! We Had No Idea…
As it turns out, the Republican budget may imperil our chance of getting federal educaution stimulus dollars. You know, those federal stimulus dollars that some Republicans (including the governor) argued made the cuts not as bad as initially advertised.
At issue is the $100 million “rollover” enacted last month. This rollover is supposed to be paid [...]
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Goldwater Institute to Arizonans: We Are Better than Slovenia!
In reaction to an ad put out by the Arizona Economic Council, the Goldwater Institute has shot back. The are claiming that Arizona not only spends more money than the sort of third world country portrayed in the ad, but we spend more than countries in Eastern Europe that are recovering from generations of communist [...]
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
And It Just Gets Worse… (Part One)
Parts of the budget plan will be offered today as a “striker” to SB 1187. The original title of that bill is “Deceptive Mailings.” You do what you want with that.
(Text of the “striker” is here)
In addition to cuts to education that have already been proposed, the Arizona Education Association has found some provisions that [...]
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Poor Steve Yarbrough is Being “Pummelled.”
There’s a bit in this morning’s Republic about Steve Yarbrough’s possible conflicts of interest in his pushing for private school tax credits when he works for an agency that benefits from these tax credits.
He makes some protestations that he has been “pummelled regularly” about this for years. Wow. Really? There was an article in the [...]
