http://azcapitoltimes.com Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/08/students-rail-against-lawmaker%e2%80%99s-proposal-on-financial-aid-tuition/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/08/students-rail-against-lawmaker%e2%80%99s-proposal-on-financial-aid-tuition/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:09 +0000 Tarryn Mento, Cronkite News Service http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/08/students-rail-against-lawmaker%e2%80%99s-proposal-on-financial-aid-tuition/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/08/students-rail-against-lawmaker%e2%80%99s-proposal-on-financial-aid-tuition/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/teaching-tablets/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/teaching-tablets/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:57 +0000 Don Harris http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/teaching-tablets/
The spread of laptops, hand-held devices and smart phones in classrooms is driven by rapid expansion of technology itself and by the fact that it’s the world that kids live in today. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/teaching-tablets/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/school-tuition-legislation-could-cost-state-up-to-28-5m/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/school-tuition-legislation-could-cost-state-up-to-28-5m/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:04:56 +0000 Luige del Puerto http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/school-tuition-legislation-could-cost-state-up-to-28-5m/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/school-tuition-legislation-could-cost-state-up-to-28-5m/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/digital-learning-day/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/digital-learning-day/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:54:58 +0000 Don Harris http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/digital-learning-day/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/digital-learning-day/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:45:36 +0000 Don Harris http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/separate-reports-praise-arizona-for-its-school-choice-programs/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/separate-reports-praise-arizona-for-its-school-choice-programs/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:29:52 +0000 Stephanie Snyder, Cronkite News Service http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/separate-reports-praise-arizona-for-its-school-choice-programs/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/separate-reports-praise-arizona-for-its-school-choice-programs/feed/ 1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/lawmakers-urging-classes-on-sex-money-and-the-bible/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/lawmakers-urging-classes-on-sex-money-and-the-bible/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:15 +0000 Gary Grado http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/lawmakers-urging-classes-on-sex-money-and-the-bible/
Most of the bills come from Republicans inspired by personal experiences, and they manage to reconcile their proposed classroom mandates with the principles of small government and local control of curriculum. ]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/30/lawmakers-urging-classes-on-sex-money-and-the-bible/feed/ 1 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/13/arizona-schools-finish-near-bottom-in-national-report-card-on-education/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/13/arizona-schools-finish-near-bottom-in-national-report-card-on-education/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:27 +0000 Stephanie Snyder, Cronkite News Service http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/13/arizona-schools-finish-near-bottom-in-national-report-card-on-education/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/13/arizona-schools-finish-near-bottom-in-national-report-card-on-education/feed/ 3 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/11/tusd-disbands-mexican-american-studies-program/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/11/tusd-disbands-mexican-american-studies-program/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:55:11 +0000 Gary Grado http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/11/tusd-disbands-mexican-american-studies-program/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/11/tusd-disbands-mexican-american-studies-program/feed/ 0 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/10/melvin-eyeing-nuke-facilities-for-school-funding/ http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/10/melvin-eyeing-nuke-facilities-for-school-funding/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:55:41 +0000 Jeremy Duda http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/10/melvin-eyeing-nuke-facilities-for-school-funding/
Nuclear plants need a place to store waste and reprocess spent fuel, and Melvin thinks Arizona would be ideal. And if Arizona became home to such a site, Melvin said it could be used to fund schools.]]> http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/10/melvin-eyeing-nuke-facilities-for-school-funding/feed/ 2