TheLegalProcess (v4.0 | - )

Refugee of the People’s Republic of Seattle | Now in Scottsdale AZ | Corporate lawyer, but not: legal advice | your lawyer | or attorney advertising.

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My latest @cityjournal: When schools deliver "mental health" services, parents lose all the protections of a regulated behavioral health profession. That's by design.

Last month police charged a Virginia "SEL Coach" for sexually abusing at least 4 children - police suspect more but because the school doesn't know how many kids he pulled out of class to meet privately - they have no way of knowing.

And neither do parents.

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@tpatrick0888 @IowaPulse Might appear in a ledger somewhere

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@pgarfieldjaeger Was the intended audience clinical practitioners, K-12 SWs, or both?

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Build the data centers. Bigger. Faster.

[Project 48 Arizona @project48az]

A statewide data center moratorium is the "No. 1 policy initiative" legislative Democrats are currently examining, according to @AzCapitolTimes.

The case for a pause is that Arizona needs time to write the rules. But Chandler adopted its data center ordinance back in 2022.

Marana followed in 2024. Phoenix and Mesa in 2025. Cochise County and Tucson adopted theirs this year. In each community, residents had a say, and local leaders voted on the rules.

So the question is: What did these communities and their leaders get wrong?

Was it water? Marana won't supply drinking water to cool a data center.

Was it noise? Chandler requires a baseline study before construction, then annual noise studies during peak operations for five years.

Was it power? Cochise County requires developers to show that utilities can serve a project "without adversely impacting existing users." @SRPconnect, @APSfyi, @TEPenergy, and @CorpCommAZ all say large users should pay their own way. We agree.

Was it public input? In Tucson, large-scale proposals go through neighborhood coordination and a public hearing before the mayor and council decide.

Last December, Chandler voted 7-0 to reject a proposed data center. In January, Marana approved rezoning for a data center campus.

Chandler said no. Marana said yes. That's local control.

And last month, at residents' request, Marana voted to tighten noise limits and require financial guarantees for decommissioning.

If there's a gap in those protections, name it. Why would fixing it require a statewide pause?

Fix what's missing. Don't freeze what's working.

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@project48az Very informative

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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

A social justice class at University of Michigan

I can’t believe this is real

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@tpatrick0888 @IowaPulse One of the primary benefits of a settlement is confidentiality. Just another Wednesday.

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📸FLASHBACK:
ESAs-enabled micro school owner: AZ public schools are “exclusive and intolerant environments” - and failing black, brown, and special needs students.

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📢Devastating Research Claims: AZ Public Schools FAILING Black, Brown and Special Needs Kids - “Exclusive and Intolerant” Environments - Argues ESAs Needed for Options:

➡️ School integration was supposed to improve situation
➡️ Public schools spending more on staff and support services, less on instruction, negatively impacts BLK and BRN
➡️ Disproportionately higher rates of discipline than white peers, get less individualized, culturally sensitive instruction
➡️ Public schools continue with systemic biases, lack culturally responsive teaching
➡️ Without ESAs, Black and Brown students in micro-schools that serve their needs could lose everything

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@educatedandfree A bit overstated, but I’ll allow it.

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How easily government schools use public funds to litigate over law and policies supported by the public - while parents whose rights are violated face both the cost of litigation and the burden of defeating schools’ sovereign immunity defenses.

Try to pass a parental rights bill with real teeth - $$$ - and even Republican legislators will bulk.

No, they’ll say, we can’t let schools be sued into compliance.

Loser thinking. From losers. For losers. The wheel goes round and round.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

After 43% of King County voters voted to restrict girls’ sports to those born female, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson supports a lawsuit to overturn the successful state ballot initiative, which passed with 57% of the statewide vote.

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@tpatrick0888 @benryanwriter Yes, and all a board has to do is vote “yes” to reach into your pocket

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@neetu_arnold I repeat myself, but US Public Ed has simply given up on the bottom tiers of students. The rest is post hoc justification and window dressing to keep public funding flowing.

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@JoePitts Great use of metaphor

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Extraordinary. Frankenstein was published over 200 years ago. Mary Shelly was 19.
How many kids know the full title, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
How many kids get the classical reference? Understand the significance, to the theme, to AI, to our modern age?
Yuri in Shanghai does.

[Yuri @yuri4gen]

My first AI opera film.
Beyond prompting: extensive coding meets AI generation, editing, and VFX in a hybrid filmmaking workflow.
Special thanks to Miora storyWeave for supporting this experiment with its generative creation platform.

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@walterkirn What could possibly go wrong?

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@ASmithAZ Thanks Aaron!

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@wesyang + Rule of law

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@JenandFriends26 As @ChadAldeman notes, AZ’s retention rate is exceptionally low. The statutes on 3rd grade reading and retention have loopholes and qualifiers that practically ensure everyone progresses to 4th. Ineffective by design.

https://t.co/nwBptrSaki

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New ||Longer Thoughts||: The State Board of Education's Committee on K-3 Literacy hears from an out-of-state expert who tells them - you're worse than Mississippi, worse than Florida - but unlike them, you aren't retaining kids who can't read...you pass them on.

9 years of 3rd grade reading proficiency data. 9 years of quantifiable, near-illiteracy. One wonders if this can even be called with a straight face “primary education,” when one-half of all third graders in 2024 are “minimally proficient.”

The numbers are bad, but the expert's next point was worse: Arizona’s 3rd grade proficiency rates are poor, and they are poor elsewhere too - but unlike the other 14 states in the country that require kids to pass these 3rd grade assessments to advance to 4th, Arizona is not holding them back. They are just passed along.

Almost 24% of Mississippi’s 3rd graders fail to meet the reading cut-off, but, she told them, they actually hold back 7.2% to repeat 3rd grade and receive special care. That’s not 7.2% of the those that failed, that’s 7.2% of ALL 3rd graders.

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@esanzi @FreeBeacon This must violate whatever morals clause is in her contract, however narrowly construed