“Toddler X, you can’t attend this preschool. We’re learning numbers and colors and getting ready to go to school. But your mommy and daddy came to this country illegally, so you’ll have to wait until you’re old enough for kindergarten and then do the best you can . . .”…
Tom Cutler walks through the corporate training room preparing for his evening sales meeting, pausing for a moment to fiddle with the flowers on the front table. The 33-year-old businessman is most at home here, surrounded by a buzz of new clients and suited sales folks. Cutler is no stranger…
It’s less than a month before the election. Do you know who your school-board candidates are? While the silver-spoon governor and the chubby grocer are busy trying to be “the education candidate” and former state senators Lela Alston and Lisa Graham battle for the primarily bureaucratic position of state superintendent…
Wink Dickey walks across a patch of dirt in South Phoenix, giving a tour of an imaginary community on a street that, at the moment, leads nowhere. He points to houses that don’t exist yet–the Target house,” “the SRP house” and “the PNI house.” Across the street is a park…
Bishop Jimmerson walks around in the sun instructing a miniature work crew on the art of makeshift construction. It will create three bedrooms from two in the house sitting behind a square, dirt yard with no sidewalk. The street here, near Broadway Road, is not paved. The city does not…
