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The Paradise Valley Unified School District board voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt a “statement of charges” against its superintendent, Todd Cummings, setting in motion plans to fire him unless he requests a hearing within ten days. The decision comes after only a few months in the job. Cummings was placed on paid administrative leave on September 30 following a closed-door board meeting that cited unspecified complaints and employment concerns. In the months since, an

Arizona voters have short memories, but sometimes, the past doesn’t stay buried for long. Take Michael Todd, now a familiar name again as the embattled board president of Liberty Elementary School District. The same man who’s facing a recall effort from furious parents and educators today is the very same Michael Todd whose “family troubles” dominated front pages back in 2008, when he was running for mayor of Buckeye. At the time, Todd was a self-proclaimed “family man” who a

Conservatives who care about principle and accountability need to take a hard look at the record of Tom Horne. Credentials and slogans do not tell the story of a leader. Behavior does. And anyone thinking of backing him again should know exactly what they are buying: a long list of controversies that never truly disappeared. Let’s start at the beginning. In 2010, while Horne was on his way up and positioning himself to become Arizona’s Attorney General, decades-old baggage re

Arizona’s school voucher debate has been framed as a fight over freedom, parents versus bureaucrats, choice versus control. The talking points sound good, but anyone paying attention knows the situation has gone far beyond slogans. The battle over the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program has revealed a serious crisis at the intersection of politics, profit, and ideology without accountability. The internal split inside the Arizona GOP made that clear this summer when