
Blogs
Finding solutions to the water rights fight Sarah Porter, director of Morrison Institute’s Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU, was a guest on Arizona Horizon and spoke about the Gila adjudication water rights to pump and divert water, not only from the Gila River, but all of its tributaries as well. |
Shedding light on the issue of child neglect KPHO 3TV Phoenix reported that calls into the Department of Child Safety hotline are increasing, as vital community services are getting reduced because of budget cuts. |
Anatomy of Arizona's teachers walkout Seattle teacher Darrin Hoop wrote an analysis for SocialistWorker.org on how an initially small network of rank-and-file educators built a group that eventually spread across the Grand Canyon State and led the walkout of some 60,000 Arizona educators: |
Crow: Trump admin missing big opportunity on Mexico In a guest commentary for CNN.com, Arizona State University President Michael Crow wrote that NAFTA and Mexico have been beneficial to the United States, but that the Trump administration has been counterproductive by perpetuating negative stereotypes about its southern neighbor. |
Child Neglect: Voices from Arizona Communities Reports and Publications
May 2018
Erica Quintana, Jade Sun
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Teachers cite reasons for 'Red for Ed' movement The Arizona Daily Sun published responses to a guest column by Coconino County teacher Chandler Jameson entitled "Teacher forced to strike in a right-to-work state." |
Across the U.S., teachers march for school funding Nonprofit Quarterly reported that teacher strikes, in West Virginia and Kentucky, to Oklahoma, and now Colorado and Arizona, have educators swarming state capitals to say “enough.” Enough with salaries that start low and stay there; enough with leaky ceilings and outdated textbooks; enough with classrooms that contain more students and fewer resources every year. |
Teachers plan to walk out The Tucson Sentinel reported that Arizona teachers plan to walk out of their classrooms April 26 to protest low salaries and nearly $1 billion cut from K-12 funding in the wake of the Great Recession that hasn’t yet been replaced. |
Water rights at issue in Verde Valley The Camp Verde Bugle published a commentary by Steve Ayers, economic development director for the Town of Camp Verde, in which he asks "Does the Verde Valley have the water certainty we need for sustainable growth?" |