A Chino Valley couple formed a new nonprofit - the Champions for Children Foundation, Inc., through the Arizona Corporation Commission, to raise money to pay fees associated with extra-curricular activities for children whose families can't afford them.
President Harry S. Truman started the National School Lunch program in 1946. Since then 180 million lunches have been served to American school children. Mary Brown has worked in the Territorial Elementary School's kitchen for the past 15 years helping…
Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind (ASDB) Interim Superintendent Marv Lamer and ASDB Phoenix Day School for the Deaf Principal Courtney Fritz announced that all three of the ASDB’s Phoenix Day School for the Deaf (PDSD) student-teams won…
Too often parents are made to feel that it is a race to be among the first to claim that their child can read. However, it isn’t how soon a child reads that matters. Developing a love of reading, and…
Dozens of disabled Arizonans may not get to attend an annual summer camp in the White Mountains because of a money shortage. So parents of campers and the camp director are pointedly asking people and businesses to donate to Lions…
In their adoption of an expenditure budget of $44.7 million for 2015-2016, the Yuma Elementary School District 1 governing board also unanimously approved an increase to their estimated primary property tax rate.
At nightfall, some 60 children from the Church of the Nazarene's Arizona district gather in a conference room at Camp Pinerock. On either side of the room are bags of donated school supplies and mounds of canned goods.After a day…
Governor Doug Ducey will be looking to the voters next year to support his plan to infuse an additional $2 billion into K-12 education. Ducey unveiled his plan earlier in the month to fund the increase not through taxes, but…
The TUSD Governing Board awarded Superintendent H.T. Sanchez a $12,600 bonus Tuesday for achieving 100 percent of his performance goals. The award, approved by governing board members Adelita Grijalva, Kristel Foster and Cam Juarez, comes on the heels of a…
Thirty-two graduates, gowned in maroon and gold, celebrated their successful completion of high school during a sunset ceremony at Dream Manor Inn last Tuesday, June 16. More than 300 family members, friends, and guests attended the ceremony to wish the…
Administrators in the Kyrene School District have noticed a significant achievement gap among students in the district, and this year they are doing all they can to close that gap. “We are a high achieving school district but we have…
Jennifer Johnson, former superintendent of Glendale Union High School District, had been hearing about teachers leaving Arizona's public schools in droves, even before their contracts ended. "Arizona in the last couple of years has lost 20 percent of its first-year…
Paul J. Luna, president and CEO of Helios Education Foundation and a board member of America's Promise Alliance: Across the country, American public schools are experiencing a major demographic shift. Latino students are our fastest growing student population, projected to…
ucson Unified School District board members will discuss employee compensation at their board meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday night. In December 2014, the district announced that TUSD employees, including teachers, would be getting their first pay increase in several…
While many high school students are spending their summer break relaxing, others from across Arizona are "trying on" a variety of health professions during the annual "Summer Scrubs" program at The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix campus.…
Our View: Gov. Ducey's plan to extract $1.7 billion from the state trust to fund education is what the money's for. Everyone who taps into an investment fund must answer the question: Is it really wise to spend this money…
