Doug Ducey wants to continue to expand the role of charter schools in the Arizona education system. However if you walk down the street and ask anyone what a charter school is, exactly, you will get a muddled response of confusion. So here is a primer on charter school education. Arizona has 531 charter schools…
First-grader Cooper Goffeney peered through the magnifying glass to scan a tree branch for butterfly larva. His class at Davis Bilingual Magnet School in Tucson that day was learning about insect biology.
PHOENIX — The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday kept the work week short for the Arizona Legislature as both houses get normal business going after their syllabus week. Gov. Doug Ducey’s budget proposal remained at the top of the news after the three-day weekend as the Capitol gears up for another series of budget battles….
PHOENIX – With family and guests in tow, members of Arizona’s 52nd Legislature were sworn in on Monday wearing white carnations. White carnations are a traditional symbol wishing good luck. With a deficit projected to hit $1 billion, and a huge debt owed to public schools and Gov. Ducey’s pledge of no new taxes, the…
In the United States, Hispanic students are almost twice as likely to drop out of high school as their peers. Locally in Arizona, where a growing Hispanic citizenry is already a sizeable chunk of the population, the trend in academic underachievement within the demographic is especially troubling. In Tucson, one student who refuses to become…
