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Arizona-based universities have increasingly focused on downtown Phoenix in the past decade, with all three state universities bringing satellite campuses to the area between Roosevelt and Van Buren streets.

Gov. Doug Ducey wants to expand Arizona’s voucher program to allow Native American students to spend public monies outside the state’s borders.

A provision slipped into the budget directs state officials to contract with a private company to help administer Arizona’s school voucher program.

Arizona’s current school’s chief has many differences compared to her two predecessors.

A cacophony of voices speaking in Spanish, interspersed with laughter, fills a classroom at Rhodes Junior High School in Mesa. Some students speak halting English, but on occasion they attempt to translate for students who don’t speak any. As the ...

Classrooms at Keams Canyon Elementary School in northeast Arizona are noticeably emptier during the winter and monsoon months.

Over the objections of one member, the state Board of Education voted Monday to scrap a rule that requires sex education classes in Arizona to "promote honor and respect for monogamous heterosexual marriage.''

The initiative filed with the Secretary of State's Office would require the state Board of Education to adopt a "classroom code of conduct.''

The federal government has threatened to withhold a huge chunk of Arizona’s school funding if the Arizona Department of Education allows schools to choose their own standardized tests for students.

With some new money coming into the system, classroom spending in Arizona has increased for the second year in a row.