Your Vote Makes a Difference We can’t say it enough – YOUR VOTE MATTERS! Arizonans like you have a voice and you need to use it during this important election season – our students are counting on you to make informed and educated decisions. The makeup of the state legislature is determined at the primary election. Many [...]
Just a reminder that AASBO, ASA and ASBA have been working with the Arizona Department of Education to set up a series of important webinars that will be reviewing the guidelines and recommendations from the Roadmap for Reopening School Task Force. This is the first webinar in a series of webinars on reopening schools and is [...]
May 29, 2020 Will Societal Ills Finally Tip the Scales of Justice? ALAS Familia, We as brown and black families are all too familiar with the injustice and inequalities in our nation. The injustice of what is being expressed in the streets of our nation, comes at a time when voices can and must be [...]
Message from Colin Seale, thinkLaw’s Founder and CEO Black lives matter. I founded thinkLaw 5 years ago in the wake of unrest over police officers killing unarmed Black people and the protestor's cry of “Stop. Killing. Us.” consistently playing in the background. At this moment, our world seems to be at a turning point [...]
The US Census Bureau has released their 2018 Annual Survey of School System Finances. This is the latest report available. Table 8 "Per Pupil Amounts for Current Spending of Public Elementary-Secondary School Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2018" shows something I have never seen before.The US Average is $12,612. Utah is 50th in per pupil [...]
This is really scary. On Friday Highground Public Affairs Consultants released results of a poll that surveyed likely Arizona voters that was done on 5/18 through 5/22. Paul Bentz, Senior Vice President of Research and Strategy for Highground, provided us with some information from the survey. Remember, that district and charter schools are public schools [...]
