Arizona Schools

At a press conference Thursday Tom Horne called on state lawmakers to draw up legislation banning cell phones in classrooms statewide.

The recommendations include dropping requirements to allow retired law enforcement to work as school resource officers and adding mental health professionals.

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne wants schools to keep Amnesty International and UNICEF off their campuses after the organizations distributed materials critical of Israel at a student club meeting.

The report from the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association says the number of open jobs is up more than 26% from the same time last year and more than half of teachers in the classroom don’t meet the state’s standard certification requirements.

Arizona schools superintendent Tom Horne has opened a hotline for people to report what he calls “inappropriate lessons” being taught in state classrooms.

The State Senate has passed a bill that would create alternate restrooms, locker rooms and showers for transgender students who are “unwilling or unable” to use facilities that match their biological sex.

The Senate now needs to approve the measure before a March 1 deadline. Otherwise, schools will be forced to cut nearly $1.4 million from their budgets in the last few months of the academic year.

A proposed bill wants to fine Arizona schools that don’t display the U.S. flag, Constitution and Bill of Rights.

A major winter storm has led to closure at schools across northern Arizona Monday.

A major winter storm has led to delayed start times at schools across northern Arizona Monday. Here is a current, running list of closures and delays across the region.