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File image of an empty classroom at Sabino High School in Tucson.

Education Notebook: Back-to-school benchmarks, UA's path forward

Aug 8, 2020 A look back at this week's education stories in Southern Arizona and the state, Aug. 8.

Poll: Majority of Arizonans uncomfortable sending kids back to school

Aug 8, 2020 A new poll shows most people in the state are not comfortable with a return to school.

The University of Arizona campus, August 2018.

UA will start furloughs Monday, despite pushback

Aug 7, 2020 President Robbins said other cost-cutting measures will be explored to deal with a potential $250 million deficit.

The outside of a polling site set up at Tucson's Temple Emanu-El on Arizona's primary election, August 4, 2020.

Primary election, learning remotely, COVID-19 and civil liberties

Aug 7, 2020 Education and health leaders raise their concerns about reopening schools too soon.

A poster taped to a vehicle protests returning to in-person learning too soon during the pandemic. Demonstrators staged a motorcade and decorated their vehicles beforehand outside Hi Corbett Field on July 22, 2020.

Arizona schools chief anticipates delays to in-person learning

Aug 7, 2020 State Superintendent Kathy Hoffman supports schools providing targeted services for vulnerable students.

News roundup: SB 1070 retrospective, pandemic and public transit, pop-up COVID-19 testing

Aug 7, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Aug. 7.

Arizona National Guard service members at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in the Tohono O'odham Nation in Sells, Arizona, July 6, 2020.

Pima County to open free pop-up testing sites

Aug 7, 2020 The one-day sites are supposed to help underserved areas of the community.

Arizona National Guard service member directs visitor traffic at COVID-19 testing site in Tonalea, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation May 19, 2020.

Feds to cover full cost of AZ's National Guard pandemic work

Aug 7, 2020 The Trump administration will increase the amount Arizona receives.

The Ronstadt Transit Center on August 1, 2020.

Sun Tran regains riders, but faces an uncertain future

Aug 7, 2020 Transit advocates say federal funding is key to the agency's future.

A group of about 100 people protest enforcement of SB 1070 outside of the Tucson Police Department in downtown Tucson in 2013.

Looking back at SB 1070 a decade later

Aug 7, 2020 Though the infamous “show me your papers” law was partially struck down, it has left a legacy in Arizona.

File photo of the Rialto Theatre, a Tucson venue that has canceled events to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Tucson music venues calling on Congress to help

Aug 7, 2020 As many as 90% of independent music venues around the country could disappear without aid.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan, in 2016.

CBP head defends accelerated border expulsions, blames migrants for increasing COVID-19 risk

Aug 7, 2020 Commissioner Mark Morgan spoke to the media ahead of agency's release of July arrest data.

News roundup: Fraud in Arizona unemployment claims, benchmarks released for school return

Aug 6, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Aug. 6.

UA President Robbins says he doesn’t oppose a faculty union

Aug 6, 2020 Robbins said he is "all for it" after a campus coalition announced it plans to form a union.

Pima County COVID-19 testing at the Kino Events Center, July 13.

Pima County opens another free COVID-19 testing site

Aug 6, 2020 The county is opening its third, free site at the Morris K. Udall Center.

DES: State investigating hundreds of thousands of fraudulent unemployment claims

Aug 6, 2020 A new anti-fraud procedure led to a major drop in state unemployment numbers.

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