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Bills To Cover School Start Times, District Consolidation, Bullying

Adele Russell, principal of Maryland Elementary School in the Washington School District, may have reason to feel anxious as the state of Arizona moves in to examine her school. After all, last year the school in Phoenix received its second ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says Arizona has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to allow flexibility in the testing of students with significant cognitive disabilities. The agreement will allow what is known as out-of-level testing ...

One of the primary goals of the Maricopa Skill Center is to help residents of Maricopa County and beyond, 16 years and older, achieve economic self-sufficiency. Continuing education at a college or university doesn’t always fit into everyone’s plans. Our ...

Proposed Bill Calls

Move Can Lead To Administrative Bloat, Fewer Dollars For Classrooms

Although the primary election is still seven-and-a-half months away, a race for a key Senate seat is heating up. It’s a race, so far, that pits two Republicans who have one thing in common — improved education in Arizona. But ...

On the historic Sanborne Fire Insurance maps of downtown Flagstaff, this imposing walled sandstone open court is listed as a ruin, nearly from the time it was built in 1926. Flagstaff’s Basque community called it La Cancha (the court). It ...

Transportation funding, school age requirements and abortion legislation gained approval in Senate committees this week. The Senate Transportation and Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 20 gave do-pass recommendations to two competing bills calling for a 20-year extension of the Maricopa ...

The fiscal 2005 budget may not be the battleground many feared. The difference between spending proposals offered by Governor Napolitano and legislative leaders is not as great as it was for the fiscal 2004 budget when haggling did not end ...