Education and Children

White flowers are planted around the historic fountain in front of the Old Main building on the University of Arizona campus.

In-state undergraduate tuition remains same for upcoming academic year

Dec 19, 2024 The last time in-state resident tuition increased was in 2023.

Auditor General says Arizona schools fail to meet emergency preparedness standards

Dec 11, 2024 The Arizona Auditor General says that school emergency operations plans throughout the state don’t meet minimum standards and that schools have not fully implemented and tested the plans they do have.

An empty classroom at Gridley Middle School in Tucson. November 2020.

Judge dismisses challenge to dual language program, citing lack of standing

Dec 9, 2024 This lawsuit was Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's second attempt at targeting the learning model.

A Cholla High School student puts on a virtual reality headset on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

Cholla High School students experience Native art through virtual reality

Dec 6, 2024 Students, through the use of virtual reality sets, listened to three different stories from Navajo artists.

A syringe draws fluid from a vial.

Arizona sees record high vaccine exemptions among kindergarteners

Nov 27, 2024 Recent CDC data shows that vaccine exemptions for Arizona kindergarteners is up over last year, and the highest it’s been in at least 15.

The Student Union Memorial Center at the University of Arizona.

UA "stabilizes" financial reserves but faces pressure to accelerate growth and faculty support

Nov 25, 2024 UA stabilizes finances one year since the announcement of its fiscal issues, but low reserves and low faculty morale persist under new leadership.

An electric school bus parked outside of John B. Wright Elementary School on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. The Tucson Unified School District received $4 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to retire 10 diesel school buses, with ten electric school buses as an effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

TUSD gets $4 million EPA grant to replace diesel buses with electric fleet

Nov 15, 2024 Ten diesel buses are being replaced with electric models, reducing emissions and cutting costs.

The new inductees into The National Toy Hall of Fame include My Little Pony, the card game Phase 10, and Transformers.

My Little Pony, Transformers, Phase 10 join the National Toy Hall of Fame

Nov 12, 2024 All three of this year's inductees were created in the 1980s.

Students and community members march on the University of Arizona campus on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

Pro-Palestinian protestors, activists react to next Trump administration

Nov 7, 2024 “Anybody who sympathizes with the plight of the Palestinians is worried, for good reason,” an organizer said.

Scientists used a gumball machine filled with toys to test how toddlers learned when they thought something was impossible or just improbable.

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Nov 7, 2024 Even toddlers can tell an event that is improbable from one that appears impossible.

Two "Vote Here" signs sit outside the Armory Park Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in downtown Tucson.

How some of Pima County’s youngest voters feel about casting their ballots

Nov 5, 2024 Arizona’s Gen Z voters set to shape the 2024 election.

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with administrators and educators at Tucson Unified's TUSD’s Roskruge Bilingual K-8 Magnet school on Oct. 31, 2024.

U.S. Education Secretary praises Tucson's bilingual education

Oct 31, 2024 Calls is the best he has ever seen.

Arizona Youth Climate Coalition members at the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board meeting in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. Local students showed support for the passage of the TUSD Climate Resolution Act, which was researched, written and lobbied by students aged 13-20.

Tucson Unified School District approves climate action plan led by students, targets net-zero by 2040

Oct 31, 2024 New policy prioritizes clean energy, sustainable practices and a comprehensive climate education.

The University of Arizona was the first four-year public university in the state of Arizona to be federally recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

University of Arizona announces next Vice President of Research

Oct 29, 2024 Tomás Díaz de la Rubia previously worked at the University of Oklahoma.

The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted some peoples ability to get vaccinations for other infectious diseases, including pertussis.

Worst U.S. whooping cough outbreak in a decade has infected thousands

Oct 11, 2024 Experts are concerned that the outbreak could worsen in the fall and winter months.

The Arizona Department of Education Building in Phoenix, Ariz.

Department of Education launches online teacher certification tool

Oct 3, 2024 Applications can now be completed entirely online.

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