As Arizona’s newly-elected governor, Doug Ducey shot himself in both feet right out-of-the gate with his fence-straddling “stance” on K-12 public education funding, and funding cuts to state-funded higher education. Now he’s in the process of trying to reinvent himself as a champion of public education, starting with a proposal announced with great fanfare to […]
COGS on SUSD
This analysis comes to ScottsdaleTrails courtesy of the Coalition of Greater Scottsdale. While I have disagreed (sometimes vigorously) with COGS, and in particular the author (former city council candidate Copper Phillips), this appears to be a well-crafted perspective on the current problems within SUSD. However, in my humble opinion, the fourth bullet–declining enrollment–is the most […]
David Peterson Gets Sent to the Principal’s Office…Yet Again
Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent David Peterson and his cheerleader-board members (Bonnie Sneed, George Jackson, and recently-elected member Kim Hartmann) have some explaining to do, in light of a report from the Arizona Auditor General released today. That report says, in part: Costs not accurately reported In fiscal year 2012, the District did not always […]