The Arizona Legislature has approved a bill settling a yearlong fight between the state's top elected school official and the Board of Education and sent it to Gov. Doug Ducey for action. The House approved the proposal on a 53-6 vote Wednesday. The Senate had approved the bill on a 30-0 vote late Tuesday. House and Senate leaders and Gov. Doug Ducey's office helped negotiated the deal between Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas. Douglas prompted the fight and a series of ongoing lawsuits early last year when she tried to fire the board's top executives. Ducey blocked that firing and the board then moved to new offices outside her building. They also clashed over control of investigators who look into teacher wrongdoing, with the board suing Douglas to force remote access to teacher files she controlled. House Bill 2620 is designed to end the litigation. The board will retain control over its four employees and Douglas will assume oversight of the investigators.

The Senate passed legislation May 3 that will end a year-long court battle between the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas.

The House Education Committee chairman today reluctantly held a bill that would put an end to a dispute between the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas.

A bill to effectively settle disputes between the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, has gained new life after being left to die.

Education groups are pushing for a delay in “current-year funding,” saying a perfect storm is taking shape that could lead to chaos and disorder in the public school system.

Wyoming’s former education chief, Cindy Hill, visited with Arizona lawmakers March 7 to share her experience in a power struggle with her home-state Legislature.

Here are highlights of the Arizona Legislature's first 50 days - Jan. 11, through Feb. 29.

The Senate voted today without any debate to pass a bill altering the power between the State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction.

A state Senate committee voted 5 to 2 Thursday for a bill that Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas says strips her office of its powers and hands them to an unelected board of appointees: the State Board of Education.

State schools chief Diane Douglas is lashing out of a bill to confirm the power of the state Board of Education, calling it “anti-voter, anti-democracy, anti-education, anti-parents and anti-children.’’