Just like businesses, schools must have a predictable budget as they plan their operations. Unfortunately, schools are at an immediate, grave risk of losing more than a billion dollars. This is not new funding, but funding that was already appropriated ...
Read More »House moves critical race theory ban to Senate 
Two controversial education bills, one banning “critical race theory” in Arizona schools and one that, supporters say, would keep sexually explicit materials out of schools, passed the House on party-line votes Thursday. Gov. Doug Ducey called for a critical race ...
Read More »Closing Schools Not An Option
Gov. Doug Ducey is doubling down in his fight with public schools over their virus policies, offering cash to parents to send their kids to private or parochial schools if a school - or even a classroom - has to shut down.
Read More »AG: Parents can take schools to court over quarantine
If your child is sent home to quarantine when school resumes because of possible exposure to Covid, you have the right to challenge that in court.
Read More »Ducey: Vaccine ‘our tool’ to fight Covid
Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he's not interested in revisiting the ban on mask mandates despite new data showing schools that don't require face coverings are twice as likely to have an outbreak of Covid as those who have defied his edict.
Read More »Bill bans mask mandates in public schools 
Republican lawmakers did an about-face on facemasks in schools in the most recent version of the state education budget bill.
Read More »School leaders decry Ducey dropping mask mandate 
Students and teachers at Arizona schools are no longer going to be required by the state to wear masks.
Read More »Safely opening schools can be done
Ducey’s executive order means in-person learning is coming sooner than later for all schools. The school bell is about to ring statewide. We believe our schools, educators, and students can meet the challenge when they are armed with the correct resources as our experience working together in Avondale proves.
Read More »Ducey swings open school doors
Declaring it's safe, Gov. Doug Ducey is ordering all schools to return to in-person and teacher-led instruction.
Read More »Senate panel OKs voucher expansion bill 
A Senate panel on Tuesday advanced a school voucher expansion that supporters framed as a civil rights issue and opponents decried as a repudiation of Arizona voters who overwhelmingly rejected universal vouchers two years ago.
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