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Seeded with funds from Arizona’s new transportation modernization grants, some public schools and nonprofits plan to try carpool apps, vans, electric buses or paid parent drivers to help students get to and from school, in lieu of or in addition to traditional yellow school buses. 

A graduate residency program is the latest effort to chip away at state’s teacher shortage and combat high turnover.

The field of Republican candidates hoping to take on Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman is starting to take shape, with two who have some statewide name recognition. 

ASBA compared its policy services to a Microsoft Word subscription and said that its model policies are its intellectual property.

Gov. Doug Ducey or whoever succeeds him can't conduct a future financial raid on a school trust fund account without first getting congressional approval, a judge has ruled. 

A new organization calling itself a nonpartisan school board association is headed by Republican activists, including the first vice chair and treasurer of the Republican Party of Arizona, and the daughter of the chairwoman. 

Arizona schools are facing the prospect of not being able to legally spend some of the money they are receiving.

Arizona continues to have a shortage of teachers for the classroom.

Rep. Michelle Udall has become the latest House member to seek higher office. 

Arizona is getting another $862 million in federal Covid relief dollars to help safely reopen schools.