Gov. Jan Brewer announced the appointment of Roger L. Jacks to the Arizona State Board of Education. Amy Hamilton has been re-appointed to the board for a second term.

With the publishing of this year's AIMS scores, renewed calls for a two-tier high school diploma system will increase. And with that comes the self-defeating feelgood of the proposal - along with some unintentionally insidious consequences.

The Arizona Board of Education has quite the to-do list this year, from English learner issues to seniors trying to pass the AIMS graduation test.

The Arizona Board of Education has quite the to-do list this year, from English learner issues to seniors trying to pass the AIMS graduation test.

Budget override meeting

BACK TO CLASS: School starts today for the Scottsdale and Paradise Valley unified school districts and Wednesday for Fountain Hills schools.

Tempe Elementary School district's governing board wants to keep educational programs in three campuses that were closed as neighborhood schools last spring.

Dale Hancock, a former teacher, administrator and governing board member in the Chandler Unified School District, died Wednesday after battling an illness. He was 72.

The Queen Creek Unified School District governing board will meet Tuesday at the district office, 20740 S. Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek.

Instead of two standardized tests every year in Arizona, students soon will have only one.

Schools may get some relief from problems attributed to a year-to-year variance in test scores when the state Department of Education calculates another year of achievement profiles in October.

Scottsdale police on Tuesday arrested the husband of the former Sequoya Elementary School principal after a parent and district employee accused him of threatening them on the school campus.

A Scottsdale school district administrator is appealing a decision to eliminate her position.

Mesa High School’s traffic safety driving range could soon be on the chopping block. Eyes are on the practice course because of increasing costs related to its upkeep, which is projected to reach about $47,000 more this year than in the 2003-04 school year.

Mesa High School’s traffic safety driving range could soon be on the chopping block. Eyes are on the practice course because of increasing costs related to its upkeep, which is projected to reach about $47,000 more this year than in the 2003-04 school year.

The responsibility of Gilbert Public Schools is to provide students with the opportunity to obtain a comprehensive education. When it comes to high school, this includes providing instruction six periods a day for four years.

Two East Valley teachers who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing students were each sentenced Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court to 19 years in prison.

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