Arizona Education News
“This is solely in solidarity with those in Palestine,” said Lexsari Coronado, an ASU student who is involved with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is credited with organizing the demonstration.
8 hours ago
The Peoria Unified School District has fired an employee who was arrested earlier this month on sex crime charges. Former Peoria High School basketball coach Patrick Battillo is accused of asking underaged students for inappropriate photos and videos in exchange for money.
April 26, 2024
Earlier this week, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a series of bills, including one that would have required schools to have separate showers for transgender students.
April 26, 2024
Amid a budgetary crisis at the University of Arizona, its Adaptive Athletics program has received a donation commitment for $1 million. The program serves student athletes with disabilities as they compete in various sports, from wheelchair basketball to adaptive golf.
April 26, 2024
Last week, the Arizona Republic published the latest in a series of articles on guns in schools. Reporters analyzed 2,200 reports across a four-year period — an average of over 500 incidents a year.
April 25, 2024
"We're very concerned with generating guardrails for the use of AI. We are interested also in the potential that it offers to the future of education," said Joseph Guzman with the Arizona Department of Education.
April 25, 2024
A Phoenix-based arts collective is hosting an open mic night on Wednesday. But it’s not just any open mic night and not just any arts collective. Thems. aims to support artists from the LGBTQ+ community, and this week's Fruity Poetry Night at There Space is part of that.
April 24, 2024
Jamie Lander and her stepson are defendants in a lawsuit against alleged members of the "Gilbert Goons" and their parents. She moved from Riggs Elementary to Chandler’s special education department.
April 24, 2024
A new report from a national education group looks at how states are doing to link education and opportunity. The State Opportunity Index from the Strada Education Foundation finds Arizona doing well in some of the metrics examined — and less well in others.
April 23, 2024
Patrick Whelan is a doctor — an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA specializing in pediatric rheumatology, to be exact. But, he’s also a great lover of music. As part of what he calls a pandemic project, he started teaching a course at Harvard University on music and the mind
April 23, 2024
ASU associate professor Melissa Wilson spoke more about the project to fully sequence the genome of the Gila monster, including a crowdfunding effort that raised more than $10,000.
April 22, 2024
The Arizona Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s three public universities, is holding a town hall on campus Wednesday so members of the Tucson community can share their input about the nationwide presidential search that began on April 15.
April 22, 2024
Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. A vigil was held Friday to remember the 13 victims who were murdered by two student gunmen.
April 20, 2024
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently released its list of the 2023 class of fellows. All told, 502 scientists, engineers and innovators were recognized for their scientific and social achievements.
April 20, 2024
Arizona State University and four former members of its football coaching staff have reached an agreement with the NCAA on penalties for impermissible in-person contact with recruits during the COVID-19 dead period.
April 19, 2024
Not long ago, Arizona State University professor Dr. Neal Lester, Ph.D., was sitting in his office, when one of his grad students came in. As they talked, Lester noticed that the student seemed distressed.
April 19, 2024
The Tempe Union High School District has a program called TAPP, which provides support to pregnant and parenting teens enrolled in high school. As part of that, one high school is now offering trauma informed care training.
April 18, 2024
The search committee for the next president of the University of Arizona had its first meeting Wednesday. Current President Robert Robbins said he would step down at the end of his contract- which ends in 2026- or as soon as another candidate is ready to take his place.
April 18, 2024
A bill that would require schools to have separate showers for transgender students so that other students aren't exposed to them is on the way to Gov. Katie Hobbs' desk after the Senate gave it final approval on Wednesday.
April 18, 2024
A new study examined the effect of various factors on the health of Arizona adolescents that researchers divided into five main categories that include physical and mental health, education and workforce development, environment and climate, economic well-being, and family and community.
April 18, 2024
Professor Tsafrir Mor teaches in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State — but when he’s not in the lab or the lecture hall on campus, he can sometimes be found teaching in a very different type of classroom.
April 17, 2024
