Impossible. No, that’s too easy a word for Gilbert home-school student Jonathan Horton. Osphresis is a better term for the eighth-grader trying to complete an academic triple crown this weekend.

I have a bone to pick with Ray Rafford.

PHOENIX – As parents file into a classroom at Riverview Elementary School, Enriqueta Di Santos tells them to write their children’s names on sheets of butcher paper labeled “English” and “Español,” indicating the language spoken at home.

January 15, 2005

Tuesday voters in the Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and Cave Creek unified school districts go to the polls to decide on school budget overrides to provide free full-day kindergarten for all students, while Cave Creek and Carefree voters will cast ballots in town elections.

Curry College’s chief academic officer David Potash announced that Ahwatukee Foothills resident Calvin Bunton attained membership to the Curry College dean’s list for the spring 2012 term. Curry College is located in Milton, Ma.

John M. Martin II has been accepted into the professional veterinary medical program at Colorado State University for the fall 2011 term. Martin was among 138 students selected for the program from a pool of 1,764 applicants. Selection is based primarily on academic achievement, familiarity with the facets of veterinary medicine and extracurricular and community activities.

Arizona State University, ASU Foundation and Scottsdale announced on Thursday that the long-vacant Los Arcos Mall site is envisioned to become a major research institution that will create high-paying jobs, homegrown companies and new economic vitality in aging south Scottsdale.

The Arizona Board of Regents has named a University of Arizona president. The regents named Ann Weaver Hart Friday the 21st president of the Tucson school.

Children who move regularly in the classroom do better in school than those who do not. A study in Kansas found that achievement improved on standardized tests in math, science, and reading in classrooms where movement was regularly integrated in the learning process. Youth in Illinois who participated in a before-school activity program improved their performance in math and other subjects.

Children who move regularly in the classroom do better in school than those who do not. A study in Kansas found that achievement improved on standardized tests in math, science, and reading in classrooms where movement was regularly integrated in the learning process. Youth in Illinois who participated in a before-school activity program improved their performance in math and other subjects.

Nearly 550 professors and other academics at Arizona State University are being offered a chance to take early retirement as part of a sweeping plan to help move the university in a new direction.

Mesa’s Pilgrim Lutheran School is offering free tuition this semester to students in grades two through seven. The school, now in its 41st year, wants to give families that haven’t previously been able to afford it a chance to try out a private, Christian education.

Mesa’s Pilgrim Lutheran School, 3257 E. University Drive, will offer free tuition to a limited number of children in grades two through seven for the next semester only, which begins in January.

Boeing presented a check recently for $115,000 to Mesa Unified School District for the Salk Elementary Flight Center to help students learn about “designing bridges, water filters, lighting systems, biomedical devices, oil spill solutions, submersibles, electrical circuits and many more everyday applications in the Engineering is Elementary program this school year,” according to a release.

Registration for fall kindergarten is open in the Higley Unified School District. To register, go to your local school with the following: child’s immunization record, proof of residency (contract on your house, rental or lease agreement, electric bill, etc.), child’s birth certificate and driver’s license.

This spring, the Mesa Unified School District’s governing board will adopt calendars for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years. The board welcomes comments from students, staff, parents and the public.

The state's chief election officer said Monday that the way he reads the law, Jan Brewer's reign as governor ends January 2015, no matter what she and her lawyer say.

Arizona university students will get to speak up about the 2012-2013 tuition proposals during a March 28 hearing.

Arizona State University’s in-state students would not see a tuition increase next school year under a proposal unveiled Friday by President Michael Crow’s office.

With the AIMS day of reckoning less than a year away for the Class of 2006, and a history of poor performance on the state’s high-stakes graduation test, high school students suddenly are demonstrating a burst of genius. Or is it just that state education officials have manipulated the test to ensure a small failure rate?

The state Board of Education wants to add another measure to its school accountability plan to comply with federal standards.

A new online tool is designed to help parents, students, teachers and school leaders around Arizona see how newly-proposed performance funding will benefit their local schools.

Higley Unified School District’s will hold open houses in February for families to learn about its preschool programs.