education

Red for Ed Teachers Now in a Drive to Win Elections

By & Carolyn Thompson • Oct 3, 2018
Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP, File

Last September, school speech therapist Kathy Hoffman was settling into the new academic year, working with youngsters in her small classroom behind a playground at Sahuaro Ranch Elementary School in a blue-collar neighborhood outside Phoenix.

Navajo Tech Receives $1M for New Workforce Training Center

By • Sep 26, 2018
Navajo Technical University

More than $1 million is being awarded to Navajo Technical University to build a training center to help displaced workers from the energy sector develop new skills.

Dept. of Education Backs Away from Controversial Science Standards

By • Sep 21, 2018
Michael Anderson / WikiCommons

The new Arizona Science Standards, meant to guide K-12 science curriculum, have been plagued with controversy for their treatment of evolution. The Arizona Department of Education spent more than a year convening committees to hammer out language everyone can agree on. The latest version will be presented to the Board of Education on Monday—but in an unexpected move, the Superintendent of Public Instruction has already decided not to recommend it. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.


Voucher Vote Creates Dilemma For School-Choice Supporters

By • Jul 23, 2018
(AP Photo/Bob Christie, File)

School-choice supporters won legislative passage of a 2017 law to expand Arizona's voucher program, but some now aren't sure whether they want the law's fate in the hands of a voters' referendum.

Arizona Ballot Initiatives Focus on Energy, School Funding

By & Melissa Daniels • Jul 6, 2018
AP Photo/Melissa Daniels

Arizona voters could have multiple ballot initiatives to weigh in on this November over energy, education and elections.

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