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While the Senate Appropriations Committee took testimony on the budget bills this afternoon, several hundred teachers, parents and students gathered outside the chambers to protest proposed cuts to public schools and state universities.

The Tucson Unified School District is safe for the time being from any penalties associated with alleged violations of a state law forbidding racially-charged classes.

After campaigning on an education platform of increasing school choice and doing away with Common Core, many conservative Republicans in the Legislature are frustrated to find that they can’t make good on their promises to constituents.

The slide in the percentage of education funds that ends up in Arizona classrooms appears to have stopped. But it also isn't getting any better.

“Education costs money, ignorance costs more,” was among the loudest chants hundreds of protesters voiced at the state Capitol the evening of Feb. 25.

Backers of a bill that would strip Arizona school districts of millions of dollars in funding allotted for desegregation and student achievement are struggling to find enough votes for approval.

A poll released Tuesday by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University suggests that education and water are the top concerns on the minds of Arizonans as state lawmakers meet.

A bill that would settle the dispute between the governor and the state’s education chief was held Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee, but the measure’s sponsor expects it to be revived.

Touting it as a campaign promise fulfilled, Gov. Doug Ducey ceremonially signed a bill requiring all high school students in Arizona to pass a civics test in order to graduate.

A state senator is proposing to strip state schools chief Diane Douglas of much of her control over employees of the Board of Education.