Arizona encourages kids to bike safely to school

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Arizona bicyclists might notice a younger demographic pedaling down their lanes. Schools throughout the state are helping children learn to ride to school through the federal National Safe Routes to School program, started in 2005. Through 2012, the federal funding provided for 28 safe route projects in 19 Arizona cities. Since 2013, about $1.4 million…

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SUSD Students Embrace Digital Technology

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Set to become the first member of his family to attend college, 17-year-old Joseph Vasquez attributes his ability to move forward in his education to Sunnyside Unified School District’s One-to-One Computing program. “My parents were in shock that I could do so well in school,” Vasquez, a senior at Sunnyside High School, said. “My mother is…

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