Posted on 05/07/2010 7:07:10 AM PDT by bs9021
Academics Boost Arizona Tourism
Malcolm A. Kline, May 7, 2010
Here’s the difference between left-wing celebrities threatening to leave the United States because they don’t like the results of a presidential election and left-wing groups who threaten to boycott a state to show distaste for its laws. The former make America a better place while the latter make Arizona a better place.
“The governing Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) adopted the following resolution,” the group announced. “Whereas Arizona State Law S.B. 1070 is so broad in its reach and enforcement powers that it can have an adverse impact on the freedom to travel or assemble without encroachment.”
“Be it resolved that American Educational Research Association (AERA) has determined that it will no longer hold meetings or conferences in the state of Arizona until such time as this law is rescinded or AERA otherwise revisits the issue.”
“This Council resolution was adopted on April 30, the opening day of the Association’s 91st Annual Meeting in Denver,” according to AERA. “Approximately 13,000 education researchers from 60 countries are attending this five-day meeting which ends May 4.”
“AERA has a longstanding commitment to ensure that researchers, scholars, and students can convene free of constraint or intimidation,” AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine said.
“As education researchers, we need to be concerned about the effects this new law may have on fostering an environment of fear with consequences for students’ learning, educational achievement, and attachment to and belief in the social institutions of society,” President-elect Kris Gutierrez of the University of Colorado-Boulder and Levine also stated....
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That's all you need to know.
This is unbelievable...MSNBC
Arizona....A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant according sheriff’s officials. Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load of marijuana in the desert and was confronted by five suspects.
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall: “The Pinal County sheriff released the 911 tapes the injured deputy made, in response to what he called growing speculation that the shooting was staged.” On another note, the Deputy Sheriff told the 911 operator to tell his wife that he loves her, in fear that he was not going to make it.
MSNBC says the shooting was probably staged ????????
What idiots we have in so-called “news channels” today....
Some people improve the scenery by leaving and never coming back- anyone associated with the “educational elite” definately fits that bill.
Maybe Arizona will get REALLY lucky and the teachers’ unions will pull out.
No wait....the unions are about money...damn...
Who will lose jobs under an Arizona boycott? Many illegal immigrants!
Ping!
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