Education solutions articles should compare Arizona, other states
Deer Valley superintendent: Without comparison, readers don’t get adequate context
OPINION — Regarding Following the money: how Arizona pays for public school students and other articles written by Stacy Mantle: they are missing one major angle … “compared to what?”
Whenever you are writing articles about Arizona funding or public education resources, there needs to be a reference to a similar state. Without comparisons to other states, the reader just sees money in large quantities and doesn’t put context to it.
Therefore, the writing piece comes across as propaganda and not solutions, in my opinion. I believe that whenever a writer creates articles for newspapers in Arizona, it always has to be “compared to what?” to be a helpful piece.
Dr. Curtis Finch is Deer Valley Unified School District superintendent. Please submit comments at yourvalley.net/letters or email them to AzOpinions@iniusa.org. We are committed to publishing a wide variety of reader opinions, as long as they meet our Civility Guidelines.
Keywords
Stacy Mantle, education solutions, comparisons, money, funding, public education resources, context
