Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Arizona has cut public ed spending steadily since the late oughts, and they rank 50th in college per-student spending. Legislators are responding to public criticism by making it illegal for educators to engage in public discussion or debates: the state leader response to teachers and administrators who speak up about slash & burn mandates has been to float a law that will require them to shut upl Az Lawmakers have attached an amendment to Senate Bill 1172: "an employee of a school district or charter school, acting on the district's or charter school's behalf, from distributing electronic materials to influence the outcome of an election or to advocate support for or opposition to pending or proposed legislation. In their wisdom, legislators have decided that the biggest problem is not the lack of funding, but the surplus of discussion of their funding. Best to shut up the educators. |