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Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas unveiled a comprehensive education plan Oct. 1 that includes addressing a teacher shortage by providing financial incentives to teach in underserved areas.

The State Board of Education filed suit as promised today to force Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas to follow its orders.

On the heels of a nearly $100 million cut in state aid to universities, Mark Killian is quitting the Arizona Board of Regents.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas is set to unveil her comprehensive education plan Thursday at the Phoenix Art Museum.

In response to education funding plans proposed by the governor and legislative Republicans, Democrats today released their own school funding plan, boasting that their proposal would raise nearly $4 billion dollars over 10 years without increasing taxes.

Democrats in the Arizona Legislature are set to roll out a school funding plan to compete with proposals from Republicans in the Legislature and Gov. Doug Ducey.

Arizona school districts have been given permission to cut the time some English-language learners spend in a mandatory immersion program.

State Board of Education members vented at a meeting Monday about the absence of Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas and her staff and threatened to expand a planned lawsuit against her.

Republican members of the Arizona House are being summoned to briefings by their leaders on ongoing discussions to boost funding for K-12 schools.

Max Goshert has gone from being a political onlooker to the leader of a statewide campaign to unseat Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas in a matter of months.