Suspending students for missing class, whether it’s because they showed up late, cut midday or were absent from school entirely, is a controversial tactic. At least 17 states forbid schools from suspending students for attendance problems at some level—if kids…
A group of West Valley high schoolers has landed the opportunity of a lifetime. They’re going up against about 800 other students from across the nation in a competition with NASA. It’s an out of this world assignment for the…
The Phoenix Union High School District is considering bringing back school resource officers, known as SROs. This comes two years after the district eliminated SROs. In a press release Tuesday, the district said it was considering the role of having…
Four hundred teachers across Arizona received $2,500 grants as a part of the Palo Verde Fiesta Bowl Charities Wishes for Teachers program.
The University of Arizona has received a whole-genome sequencer device worth $1.3 million for their childhood diseases research center.
The San Tan Charter School's Volleyball team is winning big after raising over a thousand dollars for a breast cancer patient.
In a last-minute push, U.S. senators are working on a bipartisan agreement to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children. But the success of any major immigration deal appears unlikely,…
This week, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema floated the framework for a piece of legislation that seeks to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children — also known as "Dreamers." It could also extend Title…
If your child's fever lasts longer than five days, it's time to take them into the doctor's.
KJZZ is interested in hearing more about what's happening inside your school. What are the newsworthy things — accomplishments, innovations, challenges and struggles — that more people should know about?
“This is learning shapes, this is learning five senses, learning colors,” said Donna Eastin Garrison pointing to hundreds of boxes at her Peoria home Monday. Inside them are more than 6,000 books heading to children across the Valley.
As the potential special session and the lifting of the cap on education spending remains in question, school districts worry about how that’ll impact their budgets — and their schools — between now and the end of the academic year. …
Arizonans approved Prop. 308 in November, opening up in-state tuition to undocumented high school students for the first time in more than 15 years. Now, as the DACA program hangs on by a thread in federal court, advocates wonder — what…
Suspending students for missing class, whether it’s because they showed up late, cut midday or were absent from school entirely, is a controversial tactic. At least 17 states forbid schools from suspending students for attendance problems at some level—if kids…
Five months after Arizona enacted a universal school voucher program, some lawmakers want to increase the amount students would receive as part of a hoped-for special session of the Legislature on public school finance before the end of the year. …
College Connect Tempe is holding a free webinar on Wednesday, December 7, for high school seniors and their parents or guardians to learn about local scholarships available for soon-to-be graduates. The event runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and…
