Looks like we have another Jimmy Carter President in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama has been kissing up to the Muslim world since he became president. Could it be from his Muslim childhood in Indonesia? He hardly had a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” childhood. His parents met at a Russian language class in the 1960s at the University of Hawaii (now who studied Russian back in those days, Marxists maybe?). On one of his first overseas trips as president he meets the King of Saudi Arabia (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) and gives him a full bow from the waist. No other president has bowed down to any head of state in our history. Then Obama apologizes to the Muslim world for America’s past “transgressions” at the University of Cairo. Yes, Cairo, where our U.S. Embassy was overrun. What does the Obama Administration do? It issues another “apology.” “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts of misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims...”

A Kyrene Elementary School District committee — whose recommendations to cut back the arts set off a recall effort — is preparing to meet again.

A year after the Gilbert Unified School District governing board froze some staffing and cut programs, budgeting took a turn for the better for the 2003-04 school year — but not until after some tense moments.

All employees in the Higley Unified School District are getting a raise for the upcoming school year.

Jack and Ernie are good friends. They are both retired, so they have lots of time to hang out together. Sometimes they go to Diamondbacks games or high school football or basketball games.

Jack and Ernie are good friends. They are both retired, so they have lots of time to hang out together.

Maricopa County sheriff’s detectives arrested two 15-year-old Fountain Hills boys in connection with a vandalism spree that caused $6,000 worth of damage to a high school campus, a grocery store and a condominium complex in Fountain Hills.

Maricopa County sheriff’s detectives arrested two 15-year-old Fountain Hills boys in connection with a vandalism spree that caused $6,000 worth of damage to a high school campus, a grocery store and a condominium complex in Fountain Hills.

 The Mesa Unified School District has put a hiring freeze on nonclassroom teacher positions in the district until it knows what the Legislature will do to education spending.

State senators voted Wednesday to allow a teacher, administrator, custodian or even cafeteria worker at rural and some suburban schools to be armed.

The Higley Unified School District governing board approved a $52.4 million budget Thursday night for the 2009-10 school year, although as with all school districts, it’s a waiting game to see what the actual numbers will be once the state approves its budget.

Apache Junction schools are bracing for significant budget cuts this spring, with staff looking at ways, large and small, to save money.

Higley school board members disagreed on whether they should change the district’s fingerprint policy after the results of an audit of personnel files were presented at a meeting Wednesday.

June 9, 2004

After a divorce or the sudden death of a spouse, single parents have the twin challenges of adjusting to a new life and getting their child adjusted to it as well.

September 6, 2004

Superintendent's letter to parents

The Higley Unified School District cut about 62 positions Wednesday, including 11 teachers, with the biggest hit coming to support staff.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World canceled a stunt show Tuesday after an employee died during practice, the theme park's third worker killed on the job this summer.

The Higley Unified School District cut nine additional teachers and two nurses Thursday, bringing the total to 48 cuts of teachers and nurses.

When Southwest Airlines marketing representative Jackie Thompson enters a room with a 45-pound stuffed airplane encircling her waist, the audience is typically made up of ticket agents, baggage handlers and other airline employees.

When Southwest Airlines marketing representative Jackie Thompson enters a room with a 45-pound stuffed airplane encircling her waist, the audience is typically made up of ticket agents, baggage handlers and other airline employees.

Arizona's schools face new maintenance inspections this year — at a time when they are losing state funding to pay for building upkeep.

About an hour after the school day ends, Mountain View High School Principal Craig Luketich leaves a meeting to take a walk around the Mesa campus. He doesn’t get two steps outside the main office doors when he stops to chat with a handful of young men. He then waves to a few other students, says hello to a parent coming on campus, and makes his way into the center of the large school.