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Education at charters is spotty, oversight lax

8.16.09 - 15-year report card: Problems can persist for years with no action

TUSD contract for tech-aid help scrutinized

Same firm, paid about $225K, generated no US funds for district in past 3 years

School ratings on an upswing

7.29.09 - The number of schools statewide with the top honor of "excelling" climbed slightly, while far more inched into the "performing plus" category and fewer schools were deemed "underperforming."

Ex-school chief linked to sex tours

Court records also reveal child porn on his home computer

Before he was arrested on suspicion of trying to travel to Mexico to engage in sex with a minor, former Tanque Verde Superintendent Albert Thomas "Tom" Rogers

TUSD files desegregation plan

The Tucson Unified School District's latest plan to get out from a decades-old desegregation order includes boosting the ranks of minority teachers, expanding Mexican-American Studies

AZ divorce voids religious-school objections

PHOENIX - One parent in a divorce case can't block a decision by a former spouse to send their child to a religious school, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Student routinely restrained to fence

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By Arizona Daily Star
5-28-09
Daily EducationNews, EducationNews Today, K-12
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Five TUSD employees are put on notice for treatment of special-needs youth

Schools learn lessons in scrimping

Field trips, supplies, hiring all take big hits at time of funding cutbacks
In the Tanque Verde Unified School District, teachers have had to turn to parents to stock the school printers. In Vail, students are taking fewer field trips. And in Sunnyside, the possibility of worker furloughs looms large.

UA plans to trim offerings from Education College

The UA's College of Education plans to stop training undergraduates to be high school English, history and physical education teachers in a budget cut that some worry may exacerbate a shortage of qualified educators in Arizona.

Don't destroy Arizona education, lawmakers told

Backed up by cheers and standing ovations from an exuberant crowd, dozens of parents, teachers and educational leaders called on members of a legislative committee meeting at Flowing Wells High School on Friday to do all they could to spare public education from further state budget cuts