Pepsi Brings Breakout Latin Artist to St. Mary’s Basilica’s 9th Annual Festival Along with Check Presentation to Maricopa County Community College District to Support Higher Education for Local Students. Pepsi is showing up big in Phoenix this Sunday to celebrate…

Superintendent Hoffman Formally Notifies Legislative Leaders that District Schools Face a $1.39 Billion Cut Due to the Aggregate Expenditure Limit Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman today officially informed legislative leaders that expenditures made by Arizona’s district schools would…

School nationally recognized for implementing best health and wellness practices Calabasas School in the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 is among the 406 schools nationwide to be named as America’s Healthiest Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. The recognition,…

233 Arizona schools will be benefiting from School Connect’s Love Our Schools season all October long. The Arizona-based organization connects schools with community partners to advance opportunities for children.Since the beginning of this statewide initiative, more than 10,000 volunteers have…

Kyrene de los Cerritos Leadership Academy will be holding a school wide STEM project in which students design an apparatus to protect a small pumpkin from being smashed when dropped. The event will be hosted Monday, October 31 at 8:30…

Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee and Earn to Learn, a Tucson-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, announced the next steps in their continuing partnership by launching the first in the nation matched-savings scholarship model on a 529 plan. Earn to Learn is providing 450…

In classrooms at Henry J. Kalfas Elementary School in Niagara Falls this past summer, enthusiastic teams of college students led groups of youngsters aged 4-6 through jam-packed days of life-skills lessons disguised as fun and games. Summer camp? Yes, but…

APS and Phoenix Suns team up to provide STEM Teacher Grants  Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) is teaming up with the Phoenix Suns for the 17th year to offer STEM Teacher Grants. K-12 public and charter school teachers within APS service…

The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), with ten individually accredited colleges throughout the Greater Phoenix area, will offer four-year degrees in Fall 2023, pending approval from the Higher Learning Commission, and begin competing with some of the nation’s most…

Arizona’s Reading Scores Match Pre-Pandemic Levels, Math Scores Mirror National Trends The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic showing Arizona students are at,…

Super Bowl Champion and Digital Literacy and Inclusion Advocate, Malcolm Mitchell traveled to Avondale recently to launch the Cox Innovation Lab within the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Valley Bob Bove Branch. Mitchell was joined by Cox volunteers as he…

MCC 2022 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty: Dawn Wilkinson (left) and Rod Golden (right). Mesa Community College selects Cultural Science Department Professor Rod Golden and Education Studies Department instructor Dawn McGraw Wilkinson as Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award recipients for 2022. “I am…

With the first “early decision” college-application deadline looming on Nov. 1, and tuition and room and board at a four-year college costing around $23,000 - $52,000 per year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2023’s Best College & University Rankings report, as well…

Four outstanding Dysart students have been named Commended Students in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. Students receiving the Letter of Commendation include Marissa Le’Levier from Shadow Ridge High School, and Andrea Cosio, Fatem Kadhem and Aiden Pinuelas, from Valley…

2022 is the ninth anniversary of Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) partnering with AZCEND for Empty Bowls, a local food bank fundraising event. The all day event will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at CGCC's…

Jasmine Gonzalez, an early childhood home visiting professional with Chicanos Por La Causa Parenting (CPLP) of Phoenix, has received the Parents as Teachers (PAT) 2022 Parent Educator of the Year Award for her work strengthening families and nurturing children. Gonzalez…