Goldwater Institute

It's the pits. Arizona's preschool and day care system is loosely regulated and chronically underfunded. We need a state board for school readiness to plan, coordinate and administer the system.

After the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for educational vouchers, it was widely assumed that Arizona would be one of the first places to try to adopt them.

We were a bunch of grumpy scofflaws, sitting in a defensive-driving class, nerves still raw over being caught in some act of traffic illegality.

There is a popular recipe one can use when the facts don't support your conclusion. Take fear of change, add a peck of misinformation, stir in a dash of hypothetical scenarios and voil! The result, of course, is the same tired, indigestible propaganda.

John O'Donnell taught high school for 28 years and became more and more disenchanted with Arizona's beleaguered educational system.