It’s not often I leave an event feeling as excited and inspired as I did Saturday night after spending several hours at the Amphi Foundation’s annual gala at the El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort. It was not the first…
Barely two months on the job – so to speak – Mike Westcott facilitated his first Mingus Union School Board meeting as the district’s interning superintendent. Working on his superintendent’s certificate through Brandman University, Westcott’s internship requires the participation in…
Northern Arizona University now has two new degree programs on the books as well as the creation and reorganization of two academic departments. At its meeting earlier this month, the Arizona Board of Regents approved an Indian Country criminal justice…
A year ago, tens of thousands of Arizona teachers walked out of their classrooms and to the Capitol, fed up with stagnant salaries and rock-bottom classroom funding. In 2018, a sea of teachers in bright red T-shirts held up clever…
Trisha Hendricks shares the story of this week's A+ Teacher, Mrs. Burrell, and how she changed one student's life.
East Lockett Road was quiet with Saturday morning idleness when a group of community members wielding paint rollers and shovels gathered in the Thomas Elementary School parking lot, ready to refresh its exterior with new paint, shrubs, hopscotch and rubber…
Stacie Flannery struggled in high school, with her grades and her personal life. Counselors enrolled her in Elevate Phoenix, an in-school elective for at-risk youth in urban Phoenix. The organization offers programs, both in and outside school, that offer life-changing…
Are Valley charter schools making the grade? Data from the Arizona Department of Education shows letter grades for each charter school in Maricopa County, with ratings from A through F. An organization with multiple charter schools around the Valley claims…
Arizona Supreme Court justices watch as one of their own, Vice Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, is honored by Prescott High School officials during a Supreme Court visit to Prescott on Tuesday, April 16.
Maricopa High School teacher and National Board Certified Teacher Aidan Balt was invited by The Atlantic Magazine to the fifth annual Education Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 14. She will be participating as a speaker on a panel with…
Thirty-two young artists from Peoria Unified School District, spanning kindergarten to eighth grade, who participated in the seventh exhibition of the Mayor and Council’s Young Artists Program were honored for their work. “The City of Peoria is home to incredibly…
Mountain Ridge High School is hosting a hiring event for its students Wednesday, April 24. The event will run through both lunch periods, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Students are encouraged to prepare a resume and prepare to meet employers and talk to…
Next year's high school economics courses will now have a segment on personal finance thanks to a new law. Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill April 11 that will require high school economics classes to dedicate a portion of the…
A national report out this week gives Arizona preschool programs poor marks, based mainly on low enrollment numbers. But an Arizona-based advocacy group, First Things First, says the national report from Rutgers University doesn't look at all the factors that…
The students of Northland Preparatory Academy, number 3300 Sparrow Avenue, are proud to say that they are perfectly abnormal after hosting an event unlike any other in the school’s 23-year history. To introduce the school’s outgoing eighth-graders to high school,…
