Alicia Williams is the executive director State Board of Education, but is often mistaken for a kindergarten teacher.

e board is holding a special meeting Thursday afternoon in which they will discuss the appointment of John Arnold as the next executive director.

The State Board of Education hired a new executive director today in a contentious meeting in which Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas called the new employee “highly over qualified.”

Common Core appears to be here to stay, at least for the time being.

For some Arizona charter school operators, Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposal to allow high-performing schools with large wait lists to use other schools’ vacant facilities was a big step toward achieving a persistent goal.

“Serving Arizona.” That’s what Governor-elect Doug Ducey calls his initiative to encourage the importance of giving to others. As executive director of the largest St. Vincent de Paul in the country, we are thrilled that he has launched this initiative.

Today’s society is bombarded with information from many sources; these sources of information often have conflicting data and differing points of view. This could not be truer than in the discussions regarding legalized marijuana.

he executive director of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission recommended that the commission officially rule that Attorney General Tom Horne violated campaign finance laws by failing to report staffer time and office space he used for his re-election as contributions to his campaign. If the commission follows Collins’ recommendation at its Sept. 11 meeting, Horne could face up to $1 million in fines.

Parents with empowerment scholarship accounts have amassed roughly $2.5 million of unspent public money over three years, causing public school officials to question the program’s accountability.

While Arizona recovers from an economic crisis rooted in predatory lending practices, a bill before the Legislature proposes another round of risky loans not too far removed from the horrific payday-lending loans now mostly a good-riddance memory.