Encourages reports of school lessons that detract from teaching academic standards/em> Arizona schools chief Tom Horne has launched the Department of Education “Empower Hotline” so that Arizonans can report inappropriate public school lessons that detract from teaching academic standards. These include those that focus on race or ethnicity, rather than individuals and merit, promoting gender
Photo: Steve Kanner, a Hamilton High School counselor, emphasizes that a counselor’s role is to help students navigate their way through high school and meet personal goals. (Photo courtesy of Chandler Unified School District) On any given day Steve Kanner, a school counselor at Hamilton High School, can be found speaking to a classroom of
In June of this year, I was attending a Republican gathering at which a couple of the people who were running for the Prescott Unified School Governing Board spoke. I was impressed by one of those candidates, Brooks Compton. Brooks is a single parent and father, who decided to run for the Board when he found
Back in the day, guidance counselors were those helpful (but not unduly intrusive) high school officials who dispensed vocational and career advice, reminded you of college application deadlines, and made sure your transcripts and letters of recommendations got where they needed to go. But like so much else in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional roles