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Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposal to give money to low-income schools through a pilot project dubbed “Project Rocket” is taking shape and moving through the House of Representatives, but not everyone is pleased.

The Legislature has another bill that would appear to expand the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program to a small group of students living near the Arizona-Utah border.

A ballot referral that would completely repeal Arizona’s English-only law was held in the House Rules Committee Monday afternoon by a Republican lawmaker who has made a habit of holding bills in the past.

A Northern Arizona University forestry expert who was ahead of his time in urging communities across the West to thin dense stands of trees and set fire to the landscape as a way to ward off catastrophic wildfires has retired from his position at the school.

Matthew Ladner is one of the biggest school choice advocates in Arizona and he thinks the debate on the topic is not a productive one.

Northern Arizona University’s Young Democrats, College Republicans and several other student organizations called for university President Rita Cheng’s resignation Thursday after a state audit revealed in October that she used more than $40,000 from the university for travel expenses without proper documentation.

Gov. Doug Ducey plans to expand on a successful pilot program to help close the achievement gap in schools across Arizona, targeting low-income areas with lower-performing students.

Education activists said Monday they will try again to ask voters to tax Arizona’s richest to pay for public education.

A Republican senator wants to bar schools from teaching sex education before seventh grade. The bill from Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, also deletes “homosexuality” from acts constituting “sexual conduct” in a section of the statutes, a move that appears to ...

Four schools in Tucson's major school districts dropped from a D to an F after the Board of Education finalized letter grades issued by the Arizona Department of Education.