Education

Gene Steer has seen many children come to school hungry throughout his 22 years working as a teacher in the Tempe Elementary School District. The worst time for most of those students: Monday morning.

Joyce Lutrey showed proof Friday that she does indeed have a doctorate, one day after a parent who wants the Higley superintendent to step down questioned the leader’s degree in a public meeting.

The controversial hiring of a new principal at Higley Elementary and Middle School had some parents and board members Thursday demanding the district rethink the action.

Jose Nava spends four days a week attending Stevenson Elementary School in Mesa with his daughter, Yanori, not only as a parent, but as a student himself. When Nava came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1987 he had very limited English skills, but now he is working alongside his daughter to change that.

 About two hundred parents packed a Higley Unified School District board room Thursday night to complain about high turnover of teachers and what they believe is poor district leadership.

Michael O’Brien came from Mesa. Alex Kalinin came from Russia. Together, the graduates of Chandler-Gilbert Community College are heading into the future.

SLIDESHOW: Community colleges prepare for graduations

PHOENIX - The cost of fire repairs to Arizona State University's Memorial Union is rising.

Zoe Coleman got into the ASU nursing program on her first try. But for the close friend she convinced to join her, there were two rejections before an acceptance letter.

A new charter school opening soon in Chandler is recruiting in nearby neighborhoods, searching for students interested in math, science and technology.

When Rebecca Bever and Jessica Testa would sit in the car on their way from the studio of KJZZ (91.5 FM), National Public Radio, they would often laugh at the irony of being stuck in traffic.

A law that dissolved a north East Valley school district because it would have bused 550 students to other districts for classes is constitutional, according to a court ruling filed Wednesday.

The Gilbert Unified School District governing board has adopted a salary schedule that will provide teachers with an average pay increase of 2 percent.

Arizona State University President Michael Crow definitely knows to give a politically correct, if not necessarily accurate, answer.

PHOENIX - ABC News has chosen Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as one of five colleges where the network will open an on-campus bureau run by students.

A plan to merge Aztec and Zuni elementary schools isn’t off the table, but it’s no longer the only option the Scottsdale Unified School District’s governing board is entertaining to consolidate schools in north Scottsdale.

Thick binders stacked with thousands of pages of test score data — names, numbers, passing rates — sit in the offices of East Valley school administrators and principals.

Thick binders stacked with thousands of pages of test score data — names, numbers, passing rates — sit in the offices of East Valley school administrators and principals.

In the coming months, the Maricopa County Community College District will become an even more important feeder to the nation’s major college sports programs.

Two years ago, Mesa Community College pitcher Paul Schmidt enrolled in a class at his coach’s request that ran foul of the line between higher education and sports. Class work consisted of fielding drills and pre-game stretches.

Smitha Ramakrishna got a cold, hard reality check a few years ago when she visited her grandparents in India and rode past the outskirts of a city.