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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.

A legislative panel on Monday recommended increasing funding for gifted education, ending years of the state’s brightest students being in a budgetary limbo.

A Phoenix-based national university known for promoting its programs has agreed to pay a record $191 million to settle claims it used deceptive advertising to attract prospective students.

The American Dream means different things to different people, but to Ylenia Aguilar, it meant being able to vote for herself in the first election she was able to vote as an American citizen.

Two legal organizations intend to sue state Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman over the state’s school voucher program on behalf of a military parent who claims her family isn’t receiving funds in a timely manner.

There’s a new president and CEO at one of Arizona’s most prolific nonprofit and nonpartisan lobbying groups.

Arizona voters appear poised to approve bond issuances and budget overrides in the majority of the state’s school districts, according to provisional early voting results released by county governments late last night.