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More than double the applicants than last year want to enroll in the state’s empowerment scholarship account program after school-choice groups targeted families in low-income neighborhoods in a massive public awareness campaign.

Arizona’s House Rules Committee killed a bill that would have given Grand Canyon University a major tax break after attorneys determined the legislation was unconstitutional. The reclassification could have saved the university roughly $750,000 a year in taxes.

Arizona ranks poorly in educational and economic outcomes for kids, especially Latino and American Indian children, according to a national report released Tuesday.

A threat from Arizona’s Senate president to make sweeping changes to how district-sponsored charter schools are funded came closer to reality March 25 and threatened the passage of a budget in the House.

Arizona’s public schools do not fare well when it comes to access to experienced and certified teachers or to advanced math and science classes, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Arizona’s controversial system of vouchers for private and parochial schools is legal, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today.

Common Core opponents took a beating this week when two bills were killed in the Senate followed by a sparsely attended press conference in which one of the Legislature’s most ardent foes of the learning standards was a no-show.

For-profit universities in Arizona said Monday that proposed federal regulations that would make them report average student debt levels, loan default rates and other “key outcomes” are unfair and may be based on flawed data.

Five Senate Republicans again helped Democrats kill two bills that would have undermined Common Core.

Conservative lawmakers who are leading the fight to upend Arizona’s Common Core education standards are unlikely to achieve any victories this year, not as long as the governor who ushered in those standards still resides on the Ninth Floor.