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Supreme Court rules school district responsible for desegregation costs
School districts that spend money on court-ordered desegregation programs are not entitled to get reimbursed by the state, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Ex-teacher sentenced to prison for making death threat against Rogers
A former Tucson middle school teacher was sentenced Tuesday to 2 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to making a death threat against Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff.
House bill would seek public’s vote on whether to split school districts
Arizona lawmakers are moving to require a public vote in the state's largest school districts to determine whether they should be split up.
Lunch crunch: Inflation has schools scrambling to afford student meals
Inflation has put school districts in a difficult spot: They can raise prices for the families they serve or find a way to lower costs.
Public schools brace for possible wave of teacher retirements
While President Trump and his administration try to push schools across the country to reopen, Arizona is facing a situation where positive COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket and teachers who... […]
Pima County officials see legal trouble in desegregation tax
Pima County officials say a new state law dictating how to collect taxes for desegregation funding in Tucson puts the county at legal risk.
Schools chief wants to salvage parts of law deemed invalid
Diane Douglas is not directly contesting the ruling by Judge Wallace Tashima that the 2010 law was approved by lawmakers out of "racial animus'' and that "no legitimate pedagogical objective motivated the enactment and enforcement'' of the law targeting the Mexican American studies program in Tucson Unified School District.
Federal judge rules state law banning ‘ethnic studies’ illegal
Declaring the law unconstitutional, a federal judge on Wednesday permanently blocked the state Department of Education from restricting "ethnic studies'' programs in the Tucson Unified School District -- or even demanding information from the school officials about what is being taught.
State Board of Education, ADE withhold school performance data from public
The Arizona Board of Education and the Arizona Department of Education are flouting state law by not immediately disclosing school performance ratings, though the schools themselves have access to their grades.
Judge: ‘Racial animus’ behind Arizona ban on Mexican-American studies
Racism was behind an Arizona ban on ethnic studies that shuttered a popular Mexican-American Studies program, a federal judge said Tuesday.
Ethnic studies law to go on trial, former school chiefs to testify
A federal trial that could void a 2010 law that banned “ethnic studies” in public schools is set to begin June 26.
Arizona bill to ban school ‘social justice’ courses dies quickly
Republican Rep. Bob Thorpe’s bill to ban K-12 schools and universities from teaching “social justice” is dead for the year, according to the chairman of the committee to which it has been assigned.
