By Dustin Quiroz |
Monday, Feb. 27, 2017
WASHINGTON - Gov. Doug Ducey urged fellow governors this weekend to follow Arizona's lead and implement civics requirements in schools to help improve the nation's civic and political engagement.
By Kaddie Stephens |
Friday, Feb. 24, 2017
SCOTTSDALE – Mackenzie Leblanc frowned at her lollipop in disappointment, trying to figure out why students in the group across from her were rewarded with the good lollipops – the ones with bubble gum in the middle – for doing the same exercise she had just completed.
By Dustin Quiroz |
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017
WASHINGTON - Arizona officials Thursday welcomed the federal government's reversal of an Obama administration rule that required equal access to school facilities for transgender students, arguing that communities are better able to handle the issue locally.
By Christopher Silavong |
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017
PHOENIX – Recognize this language? ¿Cual es su nombre?
By Ethan Millman |
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017
GLENDALE – Glendale resident Steven Lane had always wanted to know more about the mosque that moved into the former church down the block.
By Kendra Penningroth |
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017
WASHINGTON - The judges were impressed, but when the awards were announced at the Future City competition Tuesday the Veritas Homeschoolers team came up just short, finishing second in the national engineering contest.
By Megan Amandio and Emma Green |
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017
By Kendra Penningroth |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
WASHINGTON - When faced with the problem of cleaning up a polluted petrochemical site in Ecuador, a team of urban planners from Arizona turned to "microbial degradation" and "phytoremediation" to biologically break down pollutants on the site.
By Alexis Berdine |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
PHOENIX – Students, teachers and parents were among those that crowded around the Arizona state Capitol building Monday to ask the state Legislature to give public education more funding.
By Devon Cordell |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
PHOENIX – Investigators said it started with a World of Warcraft game: A 16-year-old girl joined a team with her teacher and then entered into a private chat, which spiraled into online advances by the teacher and suggestions of meeting outside of school.
By Amanda Luberto |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
MESA – Most schools would warn students away from lasers and saws, but officials encourage the students on the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus in Mesa to use them. The campus serves as the Southwest’s largest 3-D printing research facility: The Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub.
By Kendra Penningroth |
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017
WASHINGTON - The superintendent for Navajo schools said "alarming" calls for the Trump administration to eliminate Head Start funding could leave tribal children without preschool programs or the education resources they desperately need to succeed.