News Briefs
The Arizona Supreme Court said last week it will decide a school choice issue: whether two voucher programs for children with disabilities and foster children attending private schools violate the Arizona Constitution.
November 4, 2008
Education politics—and emotions—are heating up in Arizona in advance of a Nov. 4 vote on a plan that would unify 76 elementary and high school districts around the state into 27 K-12 districts.
October 13, 2008
Arizona officials are investigating whether a Tucson school district received inappropriate perks after awarding a lucrative contract to a company that makes high-tech classroom whiteboards.
September 22, 2008
Arizona lawmakers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower federal court decisions in the Flores v. Arizona case concerning the education of Arizona’s English-language learners.
September 16, 2008
School districts in Arizona hoping to give their classrooms a fresh coat of paint, repave their school parking lots, or take steps to become more energy-efficient will have to wait one more year to make those changes.
September 16, 2008
After seeking advice from the office for civil rights of the U.S. Department of Education, officials from the Sahuarita Unified School District in Arizona have decided to defy a state law that calls for giving students who are new to English four hours of language instruction each day.
June 4, 2008
Backers of digital curricula seek to keep momentum on an effort they see as crucial to business development, workforce improvement and research.
June 6, 2008
Some Arizona school administrators are unhappy about the formula being used to distribute an extra $40.6 million for English-language learners in the state.
May 5, 2008
Lawmakers are considering appealing the ruling to the full 9th Circuit court or to the U.S. Supreme Court.
March 3, 2008
States are dealing with complications over funding, resistance from residents, and criticism that the plans may not save as much money as promised.
October 23, 2007
The plaintiffs say that the state education agency lacks authority to demand curricular alignment.
July 5, 2007
A pair of programs in Mesa, Ariz., blend mathematics with flight simulators, aeronautics, and even mock space-shuttle missions.
June 19, 2007
A rigorous Navajo-immersion program draws on both tradition and modern accountability tools to improve student achievement.
March 20, 2007
A local judge has appointed a panel to supervise three Arizona schools that serve homeless children, following the indictment of the superintendent who oversees them.
December 12, 2006
Thirteen Western states that are home to more than 93 percent of the nation’s federally owned land have formed a coalition to lobby Washington for an annual $4 billion in lost local and state property-tax revenues on the federal land, nearly $1.9 billion of which would have gone to pay for public education.
December 12, 2006
Updated: November 19, 2008
