Education

Most of the tuition increases will affect incoming students.

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.

Students and parents can give their input on the changes at a public hearing Monday, March 28 between 3 – 5 p.m.

Alpert, a sixth-grader, beat out 26 other kids to win the 2022 Arizona Spelling Bee.

The NAU School Counseling Program Coordinator Dr. Sara Haas says the program is growing as more people apply to join.

The money -- $14 million – is from federal COVID-19 relief funding and is available to K-12 teachers in Arizona’s public district and charter schools.

The district says the grant helped boost the average teacher in the program up to $75,000 a year.

It’s been three years and the COVID slide continues.

More than 1,000 people registered for the event that took place at the Renaissance Phoenix Hotel in Glendale.

They say they are being left in the dark at Friday's Pioneer Prep School Board meeting.

"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."

Algebra II can be a difficult class for students; parents often say it's much harder than algebra I.

Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation created a group home technology program to help thousand of Arizona foster kids. (Sponsored by Papa Murphy's )

Monday's 23-6 Senate vote gave the measure the needed 2/3 majority in both chambers and goes into effect immediately.

Some districts have one counselor covering multiple campuses.

Concerns have been raised that there will be widespread teacher layoffs and school closures if the spending cap isn't lifted by March 1st.

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.

According to a survey from the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association (ASPAA), there were nearly 2,000 teacher vacancies in January.

The forward-thinking, 'out of the box' educator has made it his mission to provide life-changing opportunities for every student on every campus.

Arizona's Family dug deeper and found that Aspen University was at the center of a state board nursing investigation.

The spending cap — passed by voters in 1980 — is a looming issue right now.

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 are coming from places like Kenya and, more recently, Afghanistan.

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."

"She is an amazing teacher. She does everything. Somebody hit her car and took off. Teachers don’t make a lot of money."

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.