Monthly Archives: February 2019

News You Can Use: A-F and the Growth Dilemma Video Update https://youtu.be/hfjIETiBkjg Mark Joraanstad, Ed. D. Executive Director Arizona School Administrators 602 252 0361 mjoraanstad@azsa.org

What Happened at the Capitol Last Week? Watch live proceedings with this link: http://azleg.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=7 COW Committee of the Whole. Floor Action. 3rd Read, the final vote after COW. If passes, then goes to the other legislative body for consideration. Lots of Action in the Senate SB 1071 school districts; personnel evaluations (Boyer) Passed Senate Ed [...]

Friday, February 22, 2019 Day 40 News from Week 6 This week saw the longest agendas and some of the most divisive bills of session. In fact, three bills (SB1458, SB1114, SB1459) failed to pass through Senate Education on Tuesday, the only bills to fail Ed committee thus far. However, we also saw some good [...]

Weekly Legislative Update   This was the fifth week of the legislative session, and the last opportunity for legislators to introduce new bills to be considered this year. House and Senate members introduced a total of 1,385 bills, memorials and resolutions – slightly more than the 1,328 measures proposed last year. While it may seem [...]

New national data reveals a major disconnect between how parents and their children view their local schools. While 83 percent of parents rate the overall quality of their school as good or excellent, only 64 percent of students feel the same way. To close this gap, we’ve got to turn school quality data into action. [...]

A Big Win For Arizona’s Multilingual Students Aside from Arizona’s 107th Birthday, we have something big to celebrate – Senate Bill 1014 (and House Bill 2184) passed unanimously and was officially signed into law by Governor Ducey earlier today. This is a huge win for Arizona’s English language learners. The new legislation reduces the “four [...]

When it comes to keeping students enrolled, schools are always looking for that next advantage. Yesterday, Melissa Martinez, chief communications officers at El Paso ISD in Texas, shared a new form of professional development for teachers and staff that has changed their mindset around community engagement and customer service. After the presentation, several school leaders [...]

What’s Up at the Capitol This Week? House Education meets Mondays at 2:00 P.M. Senate Education meets Tuesdays at 2:00 P.M. Watch live proceedings with this link: Watch COW Committee of the Whole. Floor Action. 3rd Read, the final vote after COW. If passes, then goes to the other legislative body for consideration. ACTION IN [...]

What’s Up at the Capitol This Week?   House Education meets Mondays at 2:00 P.M. Senate Education meets Tuesdays at 2:00 P.M. Superintendent Hoffman will deliver the State of the State in Education Speech to the House Ed Committee on Monday, February 4th at 2:00 P.M. Watch live proceedings with this link: http://azleg.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=7 HB 2083 kindergarten [...]