Arizona education officials are floating the first draft of a new set of science standards, and the public has until June 1 to comment.

Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have changed how the state regulates online education.

Arizona students are among the lowest-performing when it comes to science.

Federal prosecutors say they have broken up a ring of women who used the names of Perryville prison inmates to fraudulently get federal student financial aid.

The Arizona Board of Regents began the legislative session seeing nothing in any budget proposal for two of its prime spending requests:

Money for parity among the three universities and for the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona medical school.

WASHINGTON – It’s been more than a year since Arizona voters banned preferential treatment in state services based on race, ethnicity and gender – but little has changed on the state’s university campuses in that time.

Undergraduate enrollment officials say they never considered race in the first place – others say the schools were never selective enough for race to make a difference – and that minority enrollment has actually increased slightly.

A bill to allow public high schools in Arizona to offer an elective high school course on the Bible and its role in Western culture is now Arizona law.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday signed legislation requiring the state Board of Education to design a curriculum for schools to teach if they choose.

A panel of lawmakers today advanced the nomination of a former legislator and conservative blogger to the Arizona Board of Regents after he promised to scale back and avoid the usually controversial subjects he delves into.

State legislators will continue discussions of two appointments to the Arizona Board of Regents.

Graduate students at Arizona’s three public universities will see across-the-board tuition increases in the next academic year, under plans submitted by university presidents and approved by the state Board of Regents today.