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Higley High yearbook program a success story

May 11, 2008
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Higley High junior Karissa Giangregorio was going to drop out of school until she discovered the school's yearbook class her sophomore year.

Weekend Backpack program keeps needy kids fed

May 10, 2008

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.

Higley district official verifies doctorate

May 10, 2008

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.

Higley principal appointment draws parents wrath

May 9, 2008

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.

Mesa parents become kids’ English classmates

May 9, 2008

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.

Parents demand that Higley superintendent resign

May 8, 2008

 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.

Community college graduations booked tonight

May 8, 2008

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

Cost rising for repair work on ASU Memorial Union after fire

May 8, 2008

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

ASU fears enrollment will fall with budget cuts

May 7, 2008

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.

Math-based charter school eyes Chandler opening

May 8, 2008

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

Mesa teens air views on mass transit

May 8, 2008

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.

Dissolution of Verde school district upheld

May 7, 2008

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.

GRAPHIC: View a map of the affected area

Gilbert teachers to get average 2% pay raise

May 7, 2008

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

Templar: Universities ignore bills that could fund more construction

May 7, 2008

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

ASU's journalism school one of five chosen for ABC bureaus

May 7, 2008

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.

Board says merging of 2 schools not only option

May 7, 2008

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.

AIMS scores to be used to help teachers improve learning

July 18, 2007

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.

East Valley districts poring over AIMS scores

July 17, 2007

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.

Junior college sports: A study in oversight

June 11, 2007

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.

Maricopa community colleges: Is this a grand sham?

June 10, 2007

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: Humanitarian Scholar

May 20, 2007

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.

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