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Higher crime rates = need for criminal professionals
Justice program at ASU West gets school status
Low profile group handles nearly every dollar spent by Arizona schools
A relatively low-profile organization, whose members handle virtually every dollar of the $5.7 billion in state and local funds spent annually by Arizona’s public school districts and charter schools, focuses... […]
Pay teachers $110,000? Community college after 10th grade?Report: U.S. schools need radical fixes
Some students would go to community college after 10th grade, local schools would be run by private contractors and teachers’ salaries would shoot up as high as $110,000 but their... […]
Declining enrollment forces districts to get creative
After decades of adding classrooms and teachers, school districts in some of the Phoenix area’s more established neighborhoods are wrestling with enrollment declines. The loss of students, which results in... […]
Tuition-paying Mexican kids could enroll in Arizona school
A school board in southern Arizona is considering opening a school that accepts Mexican students who pay tuition. The $1.5 million San Fernando Elementary School will have space for 57... […]
Students in the Southwest have toughest path to success, report says
A child growing up in Virginia has the best chance of succeeding in life, while a child raised in New Mexico has the worst, according to a new report that... […]
One-of-a-kind support program faces uphill battle
Sol Gomez’s favorite book is “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the tale of a wrongly imprisoned man who avenges himself using the education he gains from a priest, and fellow... […]
Major discrepancies between state and federal education assessments
Congress to review 5-year-old No Child Left Behind law
Commentary: History Channel says Arizona standards for teaching arts, science, social studies best in nation
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne The last time I wrote a guest column for the Arizona Capitol Times, I wrote about the danger of schools narrowing their curriculum to... […]
