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The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) announced and held the first meeting of the AZ Ready for School Task Force as part of its Arizona Ready for School Campaign that will kick off this summer. The task force brings together representatives from tribal communities, education associations, community organizations, city and state agencies, schools, and more to help address…
The Arizona State Board of Education appointed Dysart Unified School District Governing Board Member Traci Sawyer-Sinkbeil to the Professional Practices Advisory Committee (PPAC). Her term will expire on July 31, 2023. The PPAC serves as the advisory committee in regards to educator certification or recertification matters related to immoral conduct…
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Since school year (SY) 2013–14, the Common Core of Data (CCD) has included a school-level virtual status flag, which has changed over time. For SY 2020–21, the Department of Education instructed states to classify schools that are normally brick-and-mortar schools but are operating remotely during the pandemic as supplemental virtual.
The Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Survey was first administered in 2018, and asks all states and territories to provide information about the types of data that are included in their SLDSs, how they use SLDS data to inform policy, and the capacity of their SLDSs for automated linking of…
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