Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Arizona education update: We've elected 'Evan Mecham on steroids'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/09/1343423/-Arizona-education-update-We-ve-elected-Evan-Mecham-on-steroids
"Arizona has a billion-dollar deficit and is not attracting quality employers, who complain that we don't produce an educated workforce (graduation rate: 43rd). Over the last decade Arizona's nitwit legislature, whose DNA is very anti-education, has cut school budgets more than any other state, while they increased prison funding 75 percent, to the point we now spend 40 percent more on prisons than schools."