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The Arizona Legislature has approved a bill to make the state's tax credit programs for donations for private school scholarships more generous.

Supporters of Arizona’s tax credits for scholarships to religious schools hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the program as a major victory for the school choice movement.

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge Monday to an Arizona tax break that directs millions of dollars to private religious schools.

Some University of Arizona students tried to make their case against a proposed tuition increase at the Tucson school.

The governing board overseeing the Maricopa County Community College District is weighing whether to raise tuition rates by 7 percent as it anticipates deep funding cuts by the state.

The Senate leadership is pushing to officially introduce and pass a budget proposal this week, multiple sources told the Arizona Capitol Times on Monday.

Gov. Jan Brewer says she's going to resist cuts to education funding that would be deeper than those she herself included in her proposed budget.

Sen. Andy Biggs wants Arizona’s universities to have the freedom to choose their own paths, but critics of his plan worry that such freedom will incite more infighting than innovating.

Nine days after he unveiled an ambitious plan to improve the state’s public schools, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal had a vision of elephants and Alps and Roman legions.

At a time when one-in-eight students in Arizona qualify for English language services, the state has made controversial and — according to the federal government – possibly unlawful changes to its language education program.