John Florez
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Published: Saturday, May 26, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Educational core standards are for states to voluntarily adopt, not a federal takeover. They realize the need to create a national education strategy if America is to succeed. The Common Core Standards ought to...
Published: Saturday, May 19, 2012 12:00 am MDT
2012 graduates have a world of promise to explore.
Published: Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:00 am MDT
The Common Core standard would help Utah and other states raise the bar on education and better compete with other countries.
Published: Saturday, May 5, 2012 12:00 am MDT
City governments are supposed to be best because they are closest to the voters. Politicians, while campaigning for office, listen to the people and their concerns so they can represent them when elected. Howev...
Published: Saturday, April 28, 2012 12:00 am MDT
It seems Utah's criminal justice system is suffering from the same malady afflicting many of our governmental institutions today: it's outdated and has a hodgepodge of subsystems — the Legislature, courts...
Published: Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:00 am MDT
We spend more time buying a pair of shoes than we do choosing our public leaders. Then we wonder why we get some elected leaders who are 'heels' and have no 'sole'? Sounds a bit silly, but sometimes it's true.
Published: Saturday, April 14, 2012 12:00 am MDT
John Naisbitt, in his 1982 book, "Megatrends," wrote, "We are living in the time of the parenthesis, the time between eras....We have not quite left behind the either/or America of the past—centralized, i...
Published: Saturday, April 7, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Have you ever wondered why politicians keep creating special commissions to study problems and then appoint the "stakeholders" who come up with the same solutions? In the meantime, a new generation of young peo...
Published: Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Ethics is not something we learn in a workshop or training session. It is not an intellectual exercise.
Published: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:00 am MDT
Do we need a state school board? Utah already has 104 legislators running our schools each with their own ideas that change every legislative session. They do as they please with no one to stop them. So, who is...