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State officials welcomed final regulations for the federal school policy that will replace the troubled No Child Left Behind program, which give states more flexibility to determine school success and which schools are falling behind.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas presented a $680 million wish list of education spending Tuesday.

Students in rural Arizona counties have significantly lower college completion rates than those in counties that have bigger cities and state universities.

At Phoenix Coding Academy, the newest school in the Phoenix Union High School District, administrators put just as much emphasis on art as they do on engineering.

For the first time in 10 years, voters cast a ballot on the Arizona State University Tempe campus.

Claiming Proposition 123 was illegally enacted, a group of citizens is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to review -- and overturn -- the voter-approved measure to put more dollars into public schools.

The Arizona Board of Regents has ended an investigation into leadership at University of Arizona's College of Medicine.

The hopes and dreams of a coalition of educators, business figures, politicians and others that is advocating for kindergarten to become a full-day grade in Arizona will likely hinge solely on whether they can earn the support of Gov. Doug Ducey.

Local administrators and educators are utilizing creative techniques to deal with Arizona’s chronic teacher shortage from a recruitment perspective as well as how to use the limited supply of qualified teachers in the most effective way.

The drumbeat of support to fund full-day kindergarten is growing louder as lawmakers and Gov. Doug Ducey prepare for the 2017 legislative session.