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TUSD Unitary Status Plan: Multiple ways to comment (without leaving your house)
by Pamela Powers Hannley Parents, students, teachers, and activists have been abuzz in recent weeks about the new Proposed Desegregation/Unitary Status Plan for Tucson Unified School District (TUSD)....
View ArticleArizona’s tuition tax credit for private schools debated by US Supreme Court
by Pamela Powers Hannley I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of the constant, absurd, expensive court battles between our boneheaded state government and the feds. How many MILLIONS of...
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Republicans & non-voters shouldn’t whine about school closures (video)
by Pamela Powers Hannley As I was reading Arizona Daily Star education reporter Alexis Huicochea's Tweets from the latest public school closure hearing on last Saturday, I wondered to myself: How many...
View ArticleBrewer on Immigrant Prisoner Release: Misplaced Blame
by Pamela Powers Hannley Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is pissed off at President Obama for releasing immigration prisoners from jail. She believes that the administration is playing some sort of high...
View ArticleChoice of 2 Democrats for AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction
Two Democrats Dr.David Garcia and Sharon Thomas are running in the Arizona primary (August 26) for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction. The winner of this race will face of the winner of the...
View ArticleStrange way for the head of the AZ Chamber to act
Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com Glenn Hamer: “You know, [business considering locating in AZ], you have a pretty face but would be cuter if you’d lose a few pounds!.” It has long been my...
View ArticleStanford University vs the State of Arizona. A contrast in priorities.
I accompanied Mark to his 1980 undergrad class reunion at Stanford this past weekend. It was my first visit to the campus and had me wishing I could commandeer a DeLorean to get me back to 1980s Donna...
View ArticleParents & Children Need Help: Let’s Take a Broader View of Education (video)
When my brother and I were small children, we spent our days with Grandpa and Grandma Springer. Mom and Dad both worked in factories– Mom as an administrative assistant and Dad as a union electrician....
View ArticleWhat Is Our Goal for Education in Arizona? (video)
Funding for education at all levels — but particularly for k-12 public education — has been a HOT button issue in Arizona since Governor Jan Brewer and her henchman, ousted Senate President Russell...
View Article#LD9 Debate Reveals Clear Choices Between Dem & GOP Candidates
Rep. Randy Friese, Pamela Powers Hannley (me), and Ana Henderson– the three candidates for the two Legislative District 9 seats in the Arizona House– faced off on Friday night in front of a packed...
View ArticleKoch-Funded Prof Back Again with Lecture Against Public Schools
Remember professor Jonny Anomaly? When faced with public outrage last September, he canceled his anti-public school lecture at a Koch-funded University of Arizona class in Tucson. Like Jack Nicholson...
View ArticleBilly Kovacs Outlines 5-Point Plan to Grow Arizona’s Economy
Democratic candidate Billy Kovacs outlined a detailed plan for how he would grow Arizona’s economy as Tucson’s Congressman. “We can grow our economy without giving massive tax breaks for corporations,”...
View ArticleWhat Did the 53rd Arizona Legislature Accomplish? (video)
It has been a little more than a month since the 53rd Legislature ended with a 40-hour marathon, passing the budget in the middle of the night, under the watchful eye of Red for Ed teachers and...
View ArticleFive Ways the U.S. College Fraud Scandal Hurts Arizonans.
We all understand that often a wealthy parent will fund a slick new campus building or a state of the art library on an elite college campus, thus securing their child’s admission to said elite...
View ArticleCoincidence? ‘Charter School Week’ Is the Same as Brown vs Bd of Ed...
Is it a coincidence that Charter School Week is the same week as the landmark Supreme Court Decision Brown vs the Board of Education? On May 16, Arizona House Republicans stood to honor Charter School...
View ArticleOn Education, Ethics and Impeachment
My husband Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished professor at UA in German Studies, just published an article in the online Elephant Journal about ethics and education, as well as impeachment of...
View ArticleStanding Up For Democracy at the School Board
We have seen over the past several years that many on the right believe that too much democracy is a bad thing. We see it in the voter suppression laws passed all over the country in the wake of the...
View Article#AZLeg Must Raise 1980 Funding Cap for Schools (video)
Thursday, January 23, marked our first floor debate of the 2020 session of the Arizona House. We had Committee of the Whole (COW) for HCR2023, a bill to raise the Constitutional funding cap that was...
View ArticleHow Should Arizona Pay for Education? Tax the Rich? Or Tax the Poor? (video)
“How can Arizona increase education funding?” has been an ongoing question since the Tea Party started hollowing out public education and doling out tax breaks ten years ago. This week the Legislature...
View ArticleArizona’s New Motto: Tax Cuts R Us (video)
Instead of “Ditat Deus” (God Enriches), Arizona’s motto should be “Tax Cuts R Us.” Today in the Ways and Means Committee, we heard three tax giveaway bills: HB229 (corporate welfare for utility...
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