Arizona Education Network President Ann-Eve Pedersen, Tucson Metro Chamber President & CEO Mike Varney and Inside Tucson Business editor Mark Evans talk about the uproar over more than 6,000 uninvestigated CPS reports, the budget challenges facing the city of Tucson, the important of downtown revitalization and turning around TUSD’s tarnished reputation.
This article appears in Dec 5-11, 2013.
Ann-Eve Pederson would not know the truth if it came up and bit her on the nose. The problems that TUSD has are not due to the state’s chronic underfunding, nor are they due to the concerns that Dr. Stegeman raises from time to time about the direction TUSD has gone. Unless Dr. Sanchez and the Governing Board’s majority faction have an epiphany about the need to put more of TUSD’s ample resources (almost $9,000 per student…far more than any other local district) into the classroom all we are going to get are the same results. She is clearly an advocate for the status quo where TUSD is used by adults to feather their own nests at the expense of the students who attend TUSD schools.