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Making vouchers universally available to pay for all children to attend private and parochial schools will actually increase costs to the state according to a legislative budget analysis.

Unable to push through a cap on university tuition hikes to control costs, a state lawmaker said she wants to require schools to offer what amounts to a “stripped-down” degree.

Lawmakers want to restore $3.5 million for Arizona’s gifted students.

It’s back to the drawing board for Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen of Snowflake in her attempt to clamp down on university tuition increases and ensure students leave college paying the same tuition as when they started.

The head of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce waded into a storm of criticism after calling the teachers’ union “crybabies” for asking for pay raises.

A legislative panel unanimously approved a bill to make schools provide students with least 50 minutes of recess per day.

According to a study by the National Education Association, the average salary for an Arizona teacher in 2016 was $45,477, lower than all but four other states

Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday defended state laws that let parents use public funds to send children to private and parochial schools.

The Arizona Board of Regents voted unanimously on January 20 to support Gov. Doug Ducey’s bonding plan to raise $1 billion for the universities using $30 million in transaction privilege tax revenues, plus a matching amount, as collateral.

The state Department of Education is warning that schools may not get their $5 billion in federal and state aid next school year unless the governor and legislature come up with more cash to run the computers that figure out who gets what.