-Another Circle-of-Life has been completed.  Arizona officials are blaming illiterate teachers for the failure of illegal immigrants to learn English.  Consider that Local Control, the Law-of-the-Land in Arizona, allows the 200+ public school districts, as well as each school within those districts, to teach and promote students as they wish.  This has included dumbing-down of the already inferior State standards, allowing illegals to waste valuable taxpayer-funded time and resources, instead of encouraging mastery and competence for legal students.   And yet, it always goes back to the teacher - the teacher that was hired by the ADMINISTRATOR - not by a teacher.  Why are administrators - too plentiful, yet highly and overpaid as they are - not held to the same level of accountability as teachers?  

     -Many districts have already responded to State recommendations of unification, before the requested September 15th deadline, and all are adamantly against it.  Surprise, surprise! 

     -Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor, discloses data that college graduates earn almost three times more money than high school dropouts, almost twice that of high school graduates, and more than one-and-a-half times those with Associate degrees. 

     -Arizona SAT scores are lower for the second straight year, prompting Super-Deterrent Tom Horne to seek ways to discontinue the 'invalid SAT tests!'  Even South Dakota admits that its education is lagging, nationally, because they teach lesser standards than are nationally required.  Results of NAEP, a nationally norm-referenced test, are regarded as invalid by Horne, show that Arizona and South Dakota are among the nations lowest learners.  Horne promotes the TerraNova tests, which are tied to the AIMS tests, and not recognized as significant, by many in educational research fields.  Horne's data shows that 80% of Arizona students are doing better than 20% of Arizona students, an increase of 50%, with only 70% being nearly illiterate!  Huh?