Many are calling for the superintendent to resign after a state audit revealed the district paid Dr. Kristi Wilson more than $1.7 million in additional compensation from 2016 to 2021.
Public charter schools would be major winners, while traditional district schools would see a mixed bag of funding increases and cuts, depending on their current funding situation.
"It's just a beautiful affirmation that the work that we do not only happens in first grade but ripples throughout the rest of their academic careers."
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation created a group home technology program to help thousand of Arizona foster kids. (Sponsored by Papa Murphy's )
The 45-14 vote provided the required two-thirds majority to give schools the ability to spend $1.54 billion lawmakers appropriated last year that would have put them over the constitutional spending limit.
Hoffman said that school districts across the state would face widespread layoffs and school closures if state lawmakers didn't do something fast to address a looming budget crisis.
The students in the television-production class are interviewing peers and teachers while also doing their own research for stories that air during their morning news program.
"Not every teacher has a student reach out on their behalf to honor them with that, so it means a lot to me," said Dan Van Tienderen, a special education teacher at Cortez High School.
"We think you guys will inspire other teenagers, not just across the Phoenix area, not just across Arizona. We think you will inspire teenagers across the United States and maybe even the world to do the same."
hoenix is one the biggest major cities in the country to not have a Holocaust education program or a place for anyone with interest, ties or for students to go to directly to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides which makes it even more of a reason to get this education into school curriculum.
