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Educators say legislative budget error could cost district charter schools millions
When lawmakers approved the state budget in March, they accidentally left out one key part. Because of the omission, several longstanding district-sponsored charter schools – public schools that have reorganized as charter schools to capture more state funding – will be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in back payments.
Education Department to seek guidance on cuts affecting smaller schools
The Department of Education will ask the attorney general this week to issue a formal opinion on cuts to funds that support smaller schools.
Timeline: Turbulent start for new schools chief
In January, new state Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas offered a message to state leaders: “Stop the madness.” But events since then suggest the madness was only starting.
Ed Board attorney calls Douglas’ lawsuit ‘political’
A judge will hear arguments next month on whether to dismiss a lawsuit to settle if employees of the State Board of Education report to the board or Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas.
Douglas ignores state board’s demands for online access
Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas took no action today on a 5 p.m. state Board of Education deadline to allow investigators online access to teacher records.
Board threatens to sue Douglas over access to teacher records
Already embroiled in one lawsuit, the state Board of Education on Monday gave schools chief Diane Douglas until the end of the day today to give its investigators unfettered access to teacher records or possibly end up in court.
Douglas takes fight over Education Board staffers to court
State schools chief Diane Douglas filed suit late Friday to force Board of Education staffers to submit to her direct control – and return to her agency’s offices.
ADE says cuts to charter schools higher than previously estimated
Cuts to one component of charter schools’ funding are higher than what lawmakers had assumed when they phased out additional support for small schools, the Arizona Education Department announced today.
Authorities forecast big changes to school funding formula
School officials and lawmakers on a panel discussion May 11 predicted the Legislature will soon be making big changes to the funding formula for K-12 education.
Federal records show ASU has lobbied for DREAM Act
Republican lawmakers are troubled that Arizona State University and University of Arizona have been lobbying Congress to help “dreamers” gain citizenship.
Report: Universities faced nation’s deepest cuts even before latest reductions
Arizona sits atop the list of states that have made the deepest cuts to higher education and have enacted the largest tuition increases in the nation since the start of the recession.
Maricopa Community Colleges to adopt budget, with no tuition increase, in May hearing
Maricopa Community Colleges have set a public hearing for Tuesday, May 26, to consider a budget that contains no property tax or tuition increases.
