More than 3,000 students will graduate from TUSD on Wednesday. Here is the schedule of commencement ceremonies.... Read more»
Watch a live stream of the TUSD Governing Board meeting beginning at about 7 p.m.... Read more»
TUSD board president Mark Stegeman said Sunday night that he will pass that leadership post to another member of the district’s Governing Board. He said he would remain on the school board, but give up the post by June 30.... Read more»
A documentary on the battle over Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program will re-air at 11 p.m., Thursday on KUAT Channel 6.... Read more»
Watch a live stream of the TUSD Governing Board meeting beginning at about 7 p.m.... Read more»
Today on Buckmaster - We talk with TUSD’s Mark Stegeman. Then, Sierra Vista Herald reporter Bill Hess on the latest San Pedro River water dispute.... Read more»
Tucson Unified School District has kicked off its Get on the Bus campaign to remind parents they have until May 15 to register their children for school transportation for the 2012-2013 school year.... Read more»
The Pascua Yaqui tribe would get land near its Casino del Sol resort and the Tucson Unified School District would get land for a transit center in a three-way land swap considered by a House subcommittee Tuesday.... Read more»1
Tucson Unified School District Superintendent John Pedicone said the Governing Board’s decision to fire Mexican American Studies program director Sean Arce on Tuesday night was necessary for the program and district to move forward.... Read more»3
TUSD’s Governing Board fired MAS director Sean Arce in a split vote Tuesday night, after chanting protesters delayed the decision. Despite impassioned pleas and a demonstration that saw supporters zip-tie themselves together, the board voted 3-2 to not renew his contract.... Read more»1
Beginning Tuesday, Tucson Unified School District will live-stream meetings of the district’s Governing Board.... Read more»1
Today on Buckmaster - The Monday Political Face-Off with Bruce Ash and Paul Eckerstrom, then former TUSD Mexican American Studies teacher Curtis Acosta and attorney Richard Martinez.... Read more»
Comic news program The Daily Show took on TUSD’s ongoing controversy over ethnic studies Monday night. Here’s the video.... Read more»3
Today on Buckmaster - TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone, the Reporters’ Roundtable with The Tucson Weekly’s Mari Herreras and TucsonSentinel.com’s Dylan Smith, and Culinary Cruiser Matt Russell.... Read more»
The Modern Language Association expressed deep concern over the elimination of TUSD’s MAS program and the removal of textbooks from classrooms, arguing that ethnic studies are relevant to all schoolchildren, and that attempts to curtail such inquiry go against the U.S.’s founding principles.... Read more»6
Parents can weigh in on Tucson Unified School District’s proposed fee increases for extracurricular activities during several presentations throughout March.... Read more»
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