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Dec 1 2021December 1, 2021

An Unlevel Playing Field: Poverty Puts Needs Ahead of School

Teacher / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

An Unlevel Playing Field:Poverty Puts Needs Ahead of School With a nearly 20% poverty rate among Arizona children, families often rely on their local public school in ways beyond providing a quality education. As a result, teachers must ensure basic needs such as nutrition and safety are met before focusing on academics. Preschoolers and early childhood education are …

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Nov 2 2021November 5, 2021

An Unlevel Playing Field: A Student’s Perspective on Surviving Poverty

Teacher / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

An Unlevel Playing Field: A Student’s Perspective on Surviving Poverty With a nearly 20% poverty rate among Arizona children, families often rely on their local public school in ways beyond providing a quality education. As a result, teachers must ensure basic needs such as nutrition and safety are met before focusing on academics. Preschoolers and early childhood …

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Oct 23 2021October 23, 2021

Arizona Educators Battle Ducey’s Ban on Mask Mandates

Masks / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

AZ Educators Battle Ducey’s Ban on Mask Mandates Arizona kids have returned to Arizona classrooms after summer break and a year and a half of upheaval and anguish caused by COVID-19. Educators, children, and families across the state are grateful to return to some semblance of normalcy, and educators are working hard to meet students’ …

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Oct 4 2021October 13, 2021

An Unlevel Playing Field: Urgent Needs of Preschoolers in Poverty

Teacher / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

An Unlevel Playing Field: Urgent Needs of Preschoolers in Poverty With a nearly 20% poverty rate among Arizona children, families often rely on their local public school in ways beyond providing a quality education. As a result, teachers must ensure basic needs such as nutrition and safety are met before focusing on academics. Preschoolers and early childhood …

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Sep 21 2021September 21, 2021

An Unlevel Playing Field: Rural Public Schools are a Lifeline From Poverty

Teacher / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

An Unlevel Playing Field:Rural Public Schools are aLifeline From Poverty With a nearly 20% poverty rate among Arizona children, families often rely on their local public school in ways beyond providing a quality education. As a result, teachers must ensure basic needs such as nutrition and safety are met before focusing on academics. This piece focuses on …

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An Unlevel Playing Field: Teaching Students in Poverty

Sep 8 2021September 15, 2021

An Unlevel Playing Field: Teaching AZ Students in Poverty

Teacher / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

An Unlevel Playing Field:Teaching Students in Poverty With a nearly 20% poverty rate among Arizona children, families often rely on their local public school in ways beyond providing a quality education. As a result, teachers must ensure basic needs such as nutrition and safety are met before focusing on academics. Read our 8-part series to learn how …

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Aug 30 2021August 30, 2021

Building Healthy Communities in Arizona

advocate / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

Building Healthy Communities in Arizona Through Public Education Regardless of socioeconomic background, ethnicity, citizenship, or race, one thing that children have in common is that they need and are deserving of a quality education. One that would prepare them for the world they are entering. One that would provide them with the tools needed to …

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Jul 28 2021July 29, 2021

Arizona Schools: The Economic Driver to Invest in the Future

Arizona Schools / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

Arizona Schools Should be the Economic Driver to Invest in the Future I’ve been an entrepreneur in Arizona for almost 30 years. In that time, I’ve realized that our state government does not care about the education of its children, or understand how public education drives our economic future. Instead, state leaders have gutted our …

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Apr 5 2021June 17, 2021

But… What is a “Fully-Funded” School?

Education Funding / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

But… What is a “Fully-Funded” School? “Fully-Funded” schools seems to be a phrase we hear a lot about this days. But what exactly does that mean? We are fully committed to ensuring every Arizona child has access to a quality, fully-funded public school in their neighborhood. But… what is a “fully-funded” school and what does …

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Jan 12 2021April 22, 2021

Advocate for the State of Education in AZ: Where Are We Now?

advocate / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

With the historic passage of Prop. 208 this November, a lot of folks are asking, “Where are we now?”

Jul 31 2020October 6, 2020

Part 6: The Racist Roots of Private School Vouchers

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 6 minutes of reading

The clearly documented racist origins of vouchers could be dismissed as irrelevant if modern voucher programs had corrected these past wrongs. However, voucher programs today continue to perpetuate school segregation, systemic inequities, and a worsening opportunity gap for our children of color.

May 23 2020October 6, 2020

Part 5: Selling School Choice

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 13 minutes of reading

Does “school choice” truly provide families choice, or is it possible that many families who seek educational choices for their children are being sold a bill of goods?

Apr 13 2020October 6, 2020

Part 4: Arizona, A Cautionary Tale for the Nation

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

Arizona is the cautionary tale of what can (and will) go wrong as school privatization spreads through the states.

Mar 26 2020October 6, 2020

Arizona Public Schools: The Heart of Our Communities

Uncategorized / By adminsosaznetwork / 5 minutes of reading

In the face of sudden closures, Arizona schools mobilized instantly to address these basic needs, ensuring food, learning, and a sense of community would not lapse in this time of crisis.

Dec 7 2019October 6, 2020

Part 3: Arizona’s First Vouchers – STOs

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

In this installment, we dig into the nation’s very first voucher program — School Tuition Organizations, or STO vouchers — passed right here in Arizona.

Nov 24 2019April 14, 2021

Part 2: Resurrecting Vouchers: The Privatization Plan

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 4 minutes of reading

In 2009, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously declared Arizona’s school voucher programs unconstitutional, stating that vouchers violate a constitutional ban against diverting taxpayer dollars to private and religious schools.

Nov 19 2019April 14, 2021

Part 1: Betsy DeVos & Co Strike Out in Arizona

8 Part Series / By adminsosaznetwork / 3 minutes of reading

Many Arizonans first learned about Betsy DeVos and private school vouchers (or “ESAs”) in 2017, but what most don’t know is that DeVos and other privatizers have been pushing these and other vouchers in Arizona for over a decade.

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An Unlevel Playing Field: Poverty Puts Needs Ahead of School

An Unlevel Playing Field: A Student’s Perspective on Surviving Poverty

Arizona Educators Battle Ducey’s Ban on Mask Mandates

An Unlevel Playing Field: Urgent Needs of Preschoolers in Poverty

An Unlevel Playing Field: Rural Public Schools are a Lifeline From Poverty

An Unlevel Playing Field: Teaching AZ Students in Poverty

Building Healthy Communities in Arizona

Arizona Schools: The Economic Driver to Invest in the Future

But… What is a “Fully-Funded” School?

Advocate for the State of Education in AZ: Where Are We Now?

Part 6: The Racist Roots of Private School Vouchers

Part 5: Selling School Choice

Part 4: Arizona, A Cautionary Tale for the Nation

Arizona Public Schools: The Heart of Our Communities

Part 3: Arizona’s First Vouchers – STOs

Part 2: Resurrecting Vouchers: The Privatization Plan

Part 1: Betsy DeVos & Co Strike Out in Arizona

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