Recent Articles from Yellow Sheet Report
The law of totally foreseeable consequences
Policymakers’ attempts to solve the teacher shortage crisis by deregulating the profession aren’t working, but are filling more classrooms with underqualified teachers, according to the latest report from the Arizona School Personnel Administration Assn.
Misogynistic, entitled white guys need not apply
Represent Me AZ, a liberal grassroots super PAC out of Tucson that engages in “guerrilla activism,” dug up videos in which presumptive Democratic US Senate candidate Grant Woods makes sexist and homophobic comments, fat-shames an airplane passenger and mocks a rape victim.
S Allen to voters: Let’s raise taxes
S Allen wants voters to boost funding for education by more than $350 million, and is offering up a referendum to ask voters to increase the Prop 301 sales tax to a full penny in the 2020 election.
$5 million here, $5 million there
In addition to the $30 million Ducey pledged to help the state’s water users carry out Arizona’s Drought Contingency Plan, the governor has promised an additional $5 million for Pinal County farmers to develop groundwater infrastructure, according to the Phoenix New Times’ Elizabeth Whitman.
One love
Monday’s inauguration ceremony is designed to send a message of inclusivity as the state enters a new era in which both Republicans and Democrats occupy Arizona’s highest offices, Dawn Wallace, special assistant to the governor, told our reporter.
You might have to work together
McSally will be sworn in at the same time as Sinema at noon tomorrow, but Sinema will still be Arizona’s first female senator and senior senator, Ducey spokesman Patrick Ptak told our reporter.
Ducey appoints Jami Snyder as new AHCCCS director
Ducey has appointed Jami Snyder to replace Tom Betlach as director of AHCCCS. Betlach retires in January.
Teachers can still strike during a plague of locusts
Townsend wants to keep schools from shutting doors like they did at the peak of the #RedforEd protests at the Capitol.
Dearest #RedforEd teachers
Townsend wants to extend legislators’ ability to compel the AG’s Office to investigate claims of statutory and constitutional violations by local governments to school boards and district employees.
Let’s not let this be a wasted experience
Cook posted a public apology on Facebook yesterday following his Wednesday night arrest for extreme DUI.
Cook is arrested for extreme DUI
Cook was arrested last night on three DUI charges, including extreme DUI, after he was caught driving along Loop 202 twice over the legal limit.
The system works
Two Phoenix Union High School District teachers were fined, and one was suspended, for violating a state law barring the use of school district resources to influence elections, according to a memo provided by the Attorney General’s Office.