Thanks for the insight regarding the Bolles Bill. Your experience reinforces my belief that many of our legislators act according to what preserves their personal power, including making those they don’t like “pay” for their audacity to disagree. Personal politics nor public politics. Where are those politicians who actually care about “we the people”?
Charter schools are quasi-public -- and in Arizona, we allow for-profit outfits like BASIS. Teachers and other educators who directly help students should be well-paid. When you look at the type of wealth by a chain's owners that can buy a $6M house, you should ask, who's being paid well here?
The first time through the process with the Bolles bill was a good learning experience. Now that you have that experience, hopefully Rep. Eigo can help this time with his background & as a member of the legislature. I find it unsettling that so much history has been lost or forgotten. Or maybe just ignored.
I remember listening to the Dodger game on that Sunday when he passed. The news came out during a break in the action. Back in the old days, we could hear Dodger games on local radio & the Phoenix Giants were our AAA team playing at Muni Stadium.
I think is shows your extreme bias against BASIS as Block's primary business is\was commercial construction. He got into the charter business in that way-
Well, easy way to prove your point. Encourage Basis and the Blocks to open the books to the for profit management company they own. Traditionally public schools have their books audited in full. Charter chains like Basis and Great Hearts have suspiciously wealthy owners that give huge sums to politicians and PACs and own an awful lot of real estate. If they aren’t taking in dough hand over fist through the companies managing their schools- they can open up the books and allow folks to take a look at how our tax dollars are spent.
The AZ Republic spent years paying lawyers to try and force them to disclose what they should be disclosing to no avail.
And, I’d love for any fiscally conservative person to explain how a a government entity can pay a for profit management company with tax dollars without any transparency. Please, I’m begging you, anyone, to justify that. If you think the Blocks and the Twists run schools and gave $80K plus to Ducey and his PACs because they “just care about educating children” (not all children, mind you, just the smart, well behaved ones, they don’t accept those pesky special needs kiddos or kids that need a free lunch), well, you might benefit from a bigger dose of skepticism about their motives.
Thanks for the insight regarding the Bolles Bill. Your experience reinforces my belief that many of our legislators act according to what preserves their personal power, including making those they don’t like “pay” for their audacity to disagree. Personal politics nor public politics. Where are those politicians who actually care about “we the people”?
Charter schools are quasi-public -- and in Arizona, we allow for-profit outfits like BASIS. Teachers and other educators who directly help students should be well-paid. When you look at the type of wealth by a chain's owners that can buy a $6M house, you should ask, who's being paid well here?
The first time through the process with the Bolles bill was a good learning experience. Now that you have that experience, hopefully Rep. Eigo can help this time with his background & as a member of the legislature. I find it unsettling that so much history has been lost or forgotten. Or maybe just ignored.
I remember listening to the Dodger game on that Sunday when he passed. The news came out during a break in the action. Back in the old days, we could hear Dodger games on local radio & the Phoenix Giants were our AAA team playing at Muni Stadium.
I think is shows your extreme bias against BASIS as Block's primary business is\was commercial construction. He got into the charter business in that way-
Well, easy way to prove your point. Encourage Basis and the Blocks to open the books to the for profit management company they own. Traditionally public schools have their books audited in full. Charter chains like Basis and Great Hearts have suspiciously wealthy owners that give huge sums to politicians and PACs and own an awful lot of real estate. If they aren’t taking in dough hand over fist through the companies managing their schools- they can open up the books and allow folks to take a look at how our tax dollars are spent.
The AZ Republic spent years paying lawyers to try and force them to disclose what they should be disclosing to no avail.
And, I’d love for any fiscally conservative person to explain how a a government entity can pay a for profit management company with tax dollars without any transparency. Please, I’m begging you, anyone, to justify that. If you think the Blocks and the Twists run schools and gave $80K plus to Ducey and his PACs because they “just care about educating children” (not all children, mind you, just the smart, well behaved ones, they don’t accept those pesky special needs kiddos or kids that need a free lunch), well, you might benefit from a bigger dose of skepticism about their motives.
Kari Lake is.........popular??????!!!!