Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget proposal includes $17.1 billion in total spending for the 2024 fiscal year, including an end to last year’s expansion of the universal school vouchers, removing around 40,000 students from the program. The budget includes $273.7 million in new…
One Gilbert girl is already a big Super Bowl winner after getting the gig of a lifetime with Good Morning America! Twelve-year-old Julia was flown out to New York as a finalist in GMA’s Super Bowl "Super Kid” contest. She…
An estimated 13% of children have a developmental delay (DD) and face three times the risk of related behavioral problems, such as aggression, impulsivity, inattention, rule-breaking and poor impulse-control. But financial, cultural and geographical barriers to treatment persist. New research in the…
On Friday, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her executive budget and revealed her desire to eliminate the state’s universal school voucher program. Nonpartisan organization Save Our Schools Arizona praised Hobbs, saying her agenda will benefit public education.
The museum officially opened on Saturday, Jan. 14 and is located at the University of Arizona.
Fidelity Investments will commit $250 million to a new education initiative to support up to 50,000 underserved minority students with scholarships and mentorship programs in the next five years. The Invest in My Education program, announced Tuesday, plans to increase graduation rates…
CUSD said they’re looking to fill around 30 bus driver openings. The shortage is something the district has been dealing with for about five years now.
A new report sheds light on another way the pandemic disrupted learning for so many students in Arizona. The report by the Helios Education Foundation finds 22% of students — or nearly 1 in 5 — were chronically absent in…
Republican Tom Horne says he intends to work across the aisle to improve education in Arizona, but his views on discipline, social emotional learning and racial issues in schools are so far to the right that finding a middle ground…
Why ASU, UA poured $125.5M into athletics during COVID
As mankind inches closer to the first boot prints on Mars, several teachers got to experience a week-long simulation that shows what it would be like to work and live on the red planet.
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne told lawmakers Wednesday the state of public education is grim. Horne made his blunt assessment before the Senate Education Committee and said, "Two-thirds of our students are not proficient in math. 60% are…
New Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne gave the update during his State of Education address Wednesday. He said when he took office last week, there were 171,000 unreviewed applications.
The Chandler community is raising thousands of dollars to support a kindergarten teacher and mom of four who was just diagnosed with a brain tumor.
There are 160 boys ranging from ages six to 18 years old waiting to be matched in Maricopa and Pinal counties.
Space scientists are increasingly focusing on moons orbiting the outer planets of our solar system. University of Arizona evolutionary biologist Regis Ferriere co-authored a study that looks at plumes of water being shot from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. He cites…
