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Many get bad marks for spending, tax policies

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has taken to the blogosphere and airwaves to defend the curriculum regulations that are the object of a lawsuit by five high-performing public charter schools. It turns out he can only defend the rules ...

The politics of fear are hard at work. People opposed to the state’s new employer sanctions law are spreading misinformation and confusing the public about the bill. This is despite the fact that H2779, known as the Fair and Legal ...

As state legislators and co-chairs of the Arizona Children’s Caucus we feel compelled to respond to the report on the state’s child welfare system. “Perennial Panic” was released Aug. 20 by Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for ...

The Arizona State Board of Education has taken an important step toward improving the college and workforce readiness of Arizona’s high school graduates. The State Board gave preliminary approval to raise high school graduation requirements to four years of math ...

For the past several weeks, Child Protective Services has been getting a lot of attention in the newspapers and on the 6 p.m. news. I’m glad more Arizonans are now worried about how we are protecting children from abuse and ...

Napolitano has power to move state

The recent bridge failure in Minnesota was a terrible and avoidable disaster. Worse yet, it is one that is waiting to happen in cities and towns all around America. If you don’t think it could happen in Arizona, think again. ...

At our current rate of construction, Arizona is building the equivalent of an entirely new city the size of Gilbert or Tempe every year. Each of these new homes brings people, and with those people come cars: sometimes one, sometimes ...

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