Ten Perfect Gifts
The forecasts for our public schools have been cloudy lately. That’s not much of a forecast. That’s more like sticking your head out the window, getting all wet, and declaring to everyone inside that, “Yup, it’s gonna rain today.”
Dick Foreman
A Thanksgiving TOP 10 for Arizona public schools
I don’t know about you, but I always find comfort in the wisdom of great minds, especially our Country’s Founding Fathers. Even if you don’t agree, we should consider the sources and their inspirations, rather than simply casting adrift what we do not agree with and just being done with it. To celebrate this Thanksgiving season, I have TEN REASONS to thank our public school system, inspired by the wisdom and words of some of history’s greatest minds.
Dick Foreman
Arizona's Trick or Treat Education
Here are ten quick facts that, well, could scare the friendliest Arizona ghost.
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Arizona’s civil war era monument that was never built
Ochoa was a Tucson merchant who, during the Civil War, refused to shift his loyalties from the United States Government to the Confederacy in deference to the demands of the commander of the marauding army from the south. When he told them “no,” they confiscated all his worldly goods (which was a lot as he was one of the most successful merchants in Tucson at the time) and ordered him out of the Territory. Forcibly put outside the protective Tucson presidio, he vowed to return to drive the Confederates from
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The Business Case for ESAs
Arizona Legislative leaders are making a strong push to adopt unlimited Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs), a means to get state tax money to fund private schools. Mathew Ladner of The Goldwater Institute made the case for unlimited ESAs in his 2012 study, “The way of the future: Education savings accounts for every American family.” The premise is that parents are seemingly pitted against the faceless bureaucrats of the public education system who have little regard for individual students.
Dick Foreman
Education policy is in your hands
Stormy forecasts on the election front have likely worn just about every voter out. But when it’s over, it’s over and we all must move on…and we will. That is an American legacy that must never be tarnished and gives us great hope and confidence for a fresh perspective on November 9th and beyond. And no issue will face greater challenges than what we will do next in our public education system...
Dick Foreman
What did Arizona voters just say on Proposition 123?
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Prop 123 and The Arizona Republic, getting it right for Arizona’s classrooms
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