The Holbrook Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) recently traveled to the Region 4 Conference at the Arizona State West Campus in Glendale, Arizona. Around 496 FBLA members, advisors and supporters attended the conference from about 28 different schools. The…
Instant replay could be part of the Arizona high school football playoffs next season after the National Federation of High Schools' Board of Directors approved the option for state associations. David Hines, executive director of the Arizona Interscholastic Association, said…
Thirty-five school districts and charter schools across Arizona will buy new buses using $7.5 million from a lawsuit settlement with Volkswagen, it was announced Monday. These two rounds of funding are the latest of Gov. Doug Ducey’s $38 million plan,…
Although no police charges have been filed, a teacher at Williams High School has been fired after a student reported being sexually harassed in a classroom. According to Williams Unified School District Governing Board President Herman Nixon, science teacher Michael…
Some Arizona lawmakers want the state to cover more of the costs of higher education for high school graduates. The plea comes after years of cuts to higher ed. Members of the Senate Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development…
Contracts with two Arizona politicians, including the current speaker of the house, are under scrutiny as part of an investigation into an East Valley technical education district. Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers, while serving in the state Legislature, was…
Attorney General Mark Brnovich has weighed in on the charter school reform debate, but in a way that indicates that he doesn’t really understand the charter school system. Or, alternatively, that he doesn’t support it. Brnovich wants charter school operators…
Kaleb Brown still stutters, but in his four years at Peoria High School and in the Panthers basketball program, he has found his voice. His mother, Pia, said by third grade she noticed that he might have a learning disability…
Hazel Rensch, a first-grader at the Shelby School, was one of 12 students in Arizona to be awarded a ribbon in ASU’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. poster/bookmark competition. There were more than 1,950 poster entries this year. Hazel’s…
More than 200 students from six Tucson-area middle schools along with 29 Raytheon Leadership Development Program (LDP) engineer mentors attended the 14th annual MathMovesU Day sponsored by Raytheon at the University of Arizona. The event is designed to encourage high…
The governor and key lawmakers finally appear ready to address the problems of one of the worst-funded public school systems in the country, say top Rim Country school leaders. Gov. Ducey’s proposed budget includes $637 million in added money for…
After she and her classmate and exchange partner, Tristan De Meyere, shared a laugh, they then relayed — one after the other — the same serious answer: Everybody here is very friendly and it’s easy to make friends here. The…
Williams Elementary-Middle School recently announced its Students of the Month.
With the amount of female inmates at the county jail around only 11 percent of the total population, the women don’t have a full re-entry program like the men. However, they do have resources like optional weekly Literacy Center classes.
A Republican lawmaker wants the state to hire a private company to oversee and administer Arizona’s voucher program and wants State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, not the newly elected Democratic superintendent, to choose the vendor. Sen. David Livingston’s proposal would sweep…
