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Arizona’s letter-grading system to measure how well schools are teaching students is on hold while the state school board makes changes.

A Florida evangelical non-profit group enlisted hundreds of Arizonans to write Gov. Doug Ducey and demand an end to Arizona public schools teaching of Islam, even though there is no evidence of it.

A national organization filed suit Wednesday against an Arizona charter school with ties to a member of the state Board of Education, accusing it of using state funds to illegally teach religious doctrine.

State schools chief Diane Douglas used a public employee and the state email system to announce her endorsement Friday of Donald Trump.

Arizona's attorney general says the state's private elementary, middle and high schools can allow guns on campus.

A non-political process for appointing school board members was the political undoing for Maricopa County Schools Superintendent Don Covey.

A U.S. Senate bill that would allow American Indian students in federal schools to use a state school choice program is set for committee debate Sept. 7.

Arizona won praise in a recent report for its program linking preschool teachers with training and scholarships, even as the report said low wages for those teachers could make such systems an exercise in futility.

Young Arizona students may have to master cursive after all, according to proposed changes to the state's reading and math learning standards.

Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday tapped a Tucson school superintendent and a Paradise Valley teacher to serve on the state Board of Education.