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		<title>Lottery initially resisted doubling Powerball ticket price</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Valtierra Bush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming & Gambling Feb 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[$1 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Lottery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lotteries in the United States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Multi-State Lottery Association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took the Arizona Lottery four years and a customer survey to decide to support raising the price of a Powerball ticket to $2, a change the agency says will bring more revenue to the state and to the Lottery winners.
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		<title>Tribes celebrate 10 years of sharing gaming revenue with Arizonans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Opinion</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gaming & Gambling Feb 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year marks 10 years since Arizona tribes signed new gaming compacts with the state of Arizona. These compacts provide an avenue for tribes to share gaming revenues with all Arizonans. As of September 2011, tribes have contributed more than $640 million to benefit education, trauma and emergency care, wildlife conservation and business development through tourism. These are real, hard dollars that have flowed to the state in good times and bad. In addition, tribal contributions fully fund the Arizona Department of Gaming, which is one of three entities that regulate tribal gaming, along with funding programs that work to prevent problem gambling.
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		<title>Gaming Department chief: Past liability issues give reason to be wary of Glendale casino</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/06/gaming-department-chief-weighs-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitol Insiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming & Gambling Feb 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Capitol Times]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gila River Indian Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indian reservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tohono O'odham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Filer was sleeping in the back seat of a minivan traveling through Tucson when it collided with a drunken driver going the wrong way on Interstate 10.
<br /><br />Arizona Department of Gaming Director Mark Brnovich points to the Tucson case as an example of a reason to be wary of the tribe’s plans to build a casino at 91st and Northern avenues in an unincorporated area adjacent to Glendale]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching tablets</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/teaching-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Jan. 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Department of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smart boards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the popularity and practical uses for technology, you’d be hard-pressed to find a school district in Arizona that isn’t giving students a taste of 21st century education.<br /><br />
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.

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		<title>School tuition legislation could cost state up to $28.5M</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luige del Puerto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Jan. 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[school tuition organization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate on Jan. 19 approved a two-bill package that expands a program allowing a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to groups that give scholarships to private school students.
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		<title>AIMS test standards don’t aim high enough to prepare students</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/aims-test-standards-don%e2%80%99t-aim-high-enough-to-prepare-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Opinion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Jan. 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACT Inc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona business & education coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Department of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational stage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[third grade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s celebrate those Arizona K-12 public schools — both traditional and charter — that are advancing their students more quickly than their peers toward college and career readiness. Let’s study their strategies and share those strategies so that similar schools might use them.]]></description>
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		<title>Digital learning day</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/digital-learning-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Jan. 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Department of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona learning day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instructional technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 28 states, including Arizona, will participate in the first Digital Learning Day on Feb. 1, to celebrate innovative teachers and instructional strategies focusing on the use of technology.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Ready</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/01/arizona-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Jan. 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIMS test]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona ready]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charter school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stand for Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with the most up-to-date computers and other technology gizmos, key educators say schools will not be able to deliver quality education without effective teachers at the front of the classroom.
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		<title>Virtual Realities: State’s new technology chief needs a system that can handle $1 trillion</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/11/22/virtual-realities-state%e2%80%99s-new-technology-chief-needs-a-system-that-can-handle-1-trillion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Gunderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Corrections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandeen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In accepting an appointment in January of this year by Gov. Jan Brewer to lead the Government Information Technology Agency, Aaron Sandeen, the “chief geek for the state of Arizona” as described by his kids, knew he would be leading the agency through the biggest change in its 15-year history. In fact, he welcomed the challenge.
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		<title>A vital investment: School advocates seek to change attitudes on education spending</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/10/24/a-vital-investment-school-advocates-seek-to-change-attitudes-on-education-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women in Public Policy Oct. 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Association of School Business Officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Board of Regents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bobette sylvester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education in the United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luann leonard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesa Public Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Carlson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona women in a position to influence public policy in education are passionate about the programs they oversee and the students they guide, but inevitably it all comes down to money.
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