PHOENIX — Dozens of Arizona schools have closed in recent years, squeezed by declining enrollment, aging infrastructure and rising costs. The culprits are familiar: families moving to the outer edges…
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Three longtime special education educators are accusing the Deer Valley Unified School District of retaliating against them after they reported what they describe as repeated mistreatment of…
PHOENIX — Walk the campus of Biltmore Preparatory Academy in central Phoenix today and you’ll find construction fencing going up, a demolition crew at work, and an administration buzzing with…
APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz — Great Hearts Academies broke ground on its 25th Arizona campus, planting a shovel into Pinal County for the first time. The ceremony at the Blossom Rock…
MESA, Ariz. — Inside a simulation lab at Pima Medical Institute, nursing students are drawing blood, hanging IV fluids and monitoring mock patients on high-tech manikins. It looks like a…
PHOENIX — Two of Arizona’s leading education advocacy organizations announced plans to combine forces, with Education Forward Arizona set to absorb the Arizona Business & Education Coalition’s programs and assets,…
PHOENIX — A Maricopa County judge is weighing whether Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee’s office must release additional records detailing how hundreds of millions of dollars in Empowerment Scholarship Account funds…
CHANDLER, Ariz. — On Saturday mornings in Chandler, a group of kids shows up at a field with no equipment bags, no club fees and no coaches drilling fundamentals; they…
PHOENIX — Wasteful spending. Little oversight. Conflicts of interest. Those are the explosive findings from a new report issued by examining the state’s rapidly expanding Empowerment Scholarship Account program —…
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Every afternoon, Janeen Scaringelli stands at the door of Chandler Early College and sends her students home the same way, with a fist bump, a smile and…