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Posted Jun 27, 2022, 4:36 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The University of Arizona will cover full-time undergraduate tuition for members of the state's 22 federally recognized Native American tribes for any program on the school's main campus, officials announced Monday. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2021, 5:48 am
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
A day after a judge ruled that a state law barring Arizona schools from requiring masks can’t be enforced until September, Gov. Ducey said school districts enacting temporary mask mandates won’t receive some federal COVID-19 relief money unless they call off those plans.... Read more»
Posted Jul 13, 2020, 5:37 pm
Adelle McNiece & Erik M. Francis/Special to TucsonSentinel.com
"Physically reopening school sites on August 17 will have devastating consequences. It is essential that Arizona waive the requirement for students to be physically present in order to broaden options that ensure the safety of our community."... Read more»
Posted Sep 29, 2019, 5:23 pm
Lindsay Walker
/Cronkite News
Arizona schools started this academic year with 21% of all teaching positions vacant, and nearly half of the teachers who were on the payroll did not meet the state’s certification standards.... Read more»
Posted May 14, 2019, 1:32 pm
Kelsey Mo
/Cronkite News
Arizona has had a difficult history with providing adequate education for English learners, including a lawsuit against the state in 1992, a ballot measure in 2000, and what experts call a failed four-hour 'block' requirement.... Read more»
Posted Oct 27, 2017, 1:16 pm
Jim Small & Evan Wyloge/Arizona Mirror
The Arizona Department of Education was alerted in March 2015 that it was improperly distributing federal funds intended to help low-income students, but didn’t undertake serious efforts to identify and fix the problem until early 2017.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 16, 2017, 1:26 pm
Evan Wyloge
/Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Seventy-three schools are appealing the letter grades they’ve been given by Arizona school officials, citing a variety of reasons why their ratings should be improved. Amphi's CDO and Helen Keeling appealed, as did Sonoran Science Academy.... Read more»
Posted Oct 6, 2017, 12:21 pm
Evan Wyloge
/Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
After refusing to release school letter grade records distributed to Arizona public schools and claiming that no list of all scores existed, the Department of Education has reversed course and released the records to media outlets who sought them.... Read more»
Posted Oct 5, 2017, 4:30 pm
Evan Wyloge & Jim Small/Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
The Arizona Department of Education physically pushed an AZCIR reporter out of its Capitol Mall offices Thursday in response to a request to inspect the latest school letter grade records. The agency’s security guard told AZCIR’s reporter he was trespassing and pushed him out of the public building.... Read more»
Posted Aug 15, 2017, 12:08 pm
Lauren Marshall
/Cronkite News
Less than 10 percent of students at 174 rural charter and public schools passed the math section of the AzMERIT test last year, according to the Arizona Department of Education.... Read more»
Posted May 22, 2017, 11:23 am
Kendra Penningroth
/Cronkite News
For the past decade, the vast majority of Arizona counties have faced a teacher shortage at the beginning of the school year, and as school districts head into the summer many teachers expect more of the same. And they’re not surprised.... Read more»
Posted Mar 8, 2017, 1:00 pm
Taylor Brestel
/Arizona Sonora News
Are Arizona students prepared for college? Recent data indicates they're not. Students here lag the national average in all categories: English, reading, math and science. Only 23 percent of Arizona students meet the benchmarks in all four subjects.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 24, 2016, 11:51 am
Claire Caulfield
/Cronkite News
Charles Heller embraces Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate gun-free zones on school campuses, a move he sees as “really restoring a freedom, not eliminating anything.” But the Tucson resident acknowledges that legal and political realities will likely keep Arizona schools gun-free for the foreseeable future.... Read more»
Posted Feb 12, 2016, 9:22 am
Griselda Nevarez & Evan Wyloge/AZCIR
Two decades after Arizona helped pioneer the charter school movement, enrollment data show the schools don’t match the school age demographics of the state and, in many cases, their neighborhoods. White - and especially Asian - students attend charter schools at a higher rate than Hispanics, who now make up the the greatest portion of Arizona’s school age population.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2016, 11:15 am
Danika Worthington
/Cronkite News
Arizona student test scores stayed level from 2013 to 2015 while scores nationally declined slightly, but the state’s marginal gains were not enough to lift it out of the bottom ranks on a new national report card.... Read more»
Posted Oct 1, 2015, 9:08 am
Jesse A. Millard
/Cronkite News
The Arizona State Board of Education is suing Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas for refusing board investigators remote access to documents involving teacher misconduct.... Read more»