Brady Williams, a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps student at Apache Junction High School, 2525 S. Ironwood Drive, is to receive a check for $1,000 at a ceremony 7:15-8:15 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20. Salt River Project and the Better Business…
The Governing Board of the Parker Unified School District has selected the current Principal at Parker High School, Paul Olson, to be the district’s new Assistant Superintendent. The selection was made at a special meeting Jan. 31. Olson will join…
Just as the Hollywood version, Mary Poppins Returns, leaves Ak-Chin Entertainment Center, Legacy Traditional School in Maricopa is preparing students not only for roles in the upcoming Mary Poppins, Jr. play, but also for life roles — as friends, co-workers,…
An accidental discovery by Superintendent Dr. Charles Bush and fellow administrators led to a powerful discussion at the Feb. 5 meeting of the Palo Verde Unified School District’s (PVUSD) Governing Board about relocating the district’s offices from the building where…
In tribute to the late Lois Fischer, a former Benson Unified School District instructor, the Benson Historical Museum is displaying the collection of student valentines she received from pupils throughout her nearly 40 years of teaching at Benson Unified. The…
Ersula J. Ore spoke to a near-capacity crowd of 90 students and faculty Tuesday morning about the history of lynching in America, and the rhetorical power lynching still commands in modern society. Ore, an assistant professor of African American Studies…
Congratulations to Kae Perry from Humboldt Elementary for being this week’s HUSD Student of the Week.
Adalynn Wagner is an amazing second-grader with a huge heart of gold.
Diné College is joining the push to mitigate one of the most critical public health crisis facing the world: antibiotic resistance. Professors Barbara Klein and Dr. Shazia Tabassum Hakim, science faculty at Diné College, recently took part in a week-long…
A group of West Valley girls saw a lack of representation and diversity in the fields of robotics, so they took matters into their own hands. Now known as the West Valley GEMS, which stands for Girls Empowering, Mentoring and…
A group of Navajo Nation elders is using traditional storytelling to try to pass down their Native language to the next generation. The Diné Council of Elders for Peace recently launched a campaign around storytelling events in Gallup, New Mexico,…
In honor of Black History Month, Cochise College will offer a series of multicultural films. The Great Debaters, a film inspired by a true story of a black debate team will be shown at the Douglas Campus on Wednesday, February…
A Senate panel took the first steps Monday to fulfilling the bid by the state’s three universities to have taxpayers pick up half the cost of educating Arizona residents. Without dissent members of the Senate Committee on Higher Education and…
The Committee on Education will decide the future of a bill that would require all faculty in Arizona schools to go through suicide prevention training. "The bill this year would require the training once every three years as opposed to…
In a victory for advocates of reform, Arizona Legislature passed a bill on Monday reducing the state's restrictive four-hour English immersion mandate for language learners in K-12 schools. Educators and school officials have pushed lawmakers for years to revise the…
