An Ahwatukee school has fielded a team in next week’s national competition for Odyssey of the Mind, a 40-year-old international competition that requires team members to work together at length to solve a predefined, long-term problem using STEM and the…
Dozens of students from Brunson-Lee Elementary School burst into a loud cheer Thursday when their school was announced as the winner of a $100,000 gym.
A five-year study from Arizona’s Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center has helped improve autism detection in children.
Gretchen Maynard thought the students were in shock. She saw it in hoodies cinched tight as the kids toured the gleaming high school hallways. It was in the way the Havasupai students avoided eye contact and kept their mouths closed,…
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman said she hopes to see the Legislature fully fund education in the state budget that’s likely to roll out next week. “First, we absolutely need to make sure that the governor and the…
The majority of Baboquivari High School's class of 2019 announced their college choices to the community Friday during a college signing ceremony. College Signing Day at the high school on the Tohono O'odham Nation recognizes the students going off to…
A Native American girl was turned away from her high school graduation Thursday after trying to enter the stadium wearing a cap adorned with a traditional feather and beads and spent the entire ceremony outside in protest with family and…
Some Arizona teenagers learned a real-world lesson at the Legislature in recent years – your public policy ideas will go nowhere if they conflict with the Republican majority. That’s been life for Democratic lawmakers for years, but students who went…
The strength of a community depends on the quality of its leaders.
Continental Elementary School students enjoyed a half-day Career Day on May 8 listening to speakers from different professions detail what they do and why it matters. From law enforcement and fire fighters to journalists and elected officials, students learned from…
A recent Garden Discovery Days program, led by Cassie Burruel of the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension in Green Valley, brought pre-schoolers and their moms together for an interactive hour of crafts, tasting and planting. Using a clothespin, pom-poms, pipe…
An analysis of gubernatorial budget proposals finds a bipartisan push among state executives to spend more state resources on early childhood programs. In all, the analysis by progressive think tank Center for American Progress found some $2.9 billion has been…
Woz U, the coding boot camp launched by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, could close after Arizona higher education regulators voted not to renew its license and denied an ownership change, the Arizona Republic reported. The school has until June 11…
College wasn't part of the plan for Westwood High senior Janeth Macias. "I was thinking, 'how am I going to go to college if my parents don't have money,'" she said. Janeth also attends the East Valley Institute of Technology…
A student of a junior high school in San Luis, Ariz., is in custody after bringing a handgun onto campus Thursday, the school district and San Luis police said.
