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Students attend class at Los Amigos Elementary in the Sunnyside Unified School District. March 2021.

The Buzz: Funding K-12 schools in the Arizona legislature

Feb 10, 2023 As an annual funding hurdle is cleared, another continues to loom.
The dome atop the Arizona Capitol Museum at the State Capitol in Phoenix. January 2021.

Arizona lawmakers avert school closures with funding fix

Feb 8, 2023 Senate vote removes aggregate expenditure limit for the rest of the school year.
A classroom in the Sunnyside Unified School District.

AZ House passes schools spending cap waiver, Senate delays vote

Feb 7, 2023 Legislature and Governor have until March 1 to pass aggregate expenditure limit waiver
A black pilar that says "How many will be enough" stands in the middle of the University of Arizona Mall one week after the killing of Professor Thomas Meixner on campus. A few days prior university officials held a candlelight vigil where the pilar stands.

The Buzz: UA Faculty Senate report details events that led to deadly shooting on campus

Feb 3, 2023 The report examines harassing behaviors of the suspected gunman from early in his time at the UA up to the shooting.
Flowers, candles and letters lay in front of the Harshbarger building sign following the murder of Professor Thomas Meixner on Wed. Oct. 5, 2022 at the University of Arizona. Meixner was killed by a former student on campus.

Interim faculty report denounces UA's response ahead of deadly on-campus shooting

Feb 1, 2023 The Committee's 30-page report says that the university’s response was a reaction from a “systemic oversight failure” and did not “address a known chronic trust problem.”
Electrical trade student Nora Marshall, 18, wires a light switch in her electrical class at West-MEC in Buckeye on Sept. 16, 2022.

Building the future: Trade occupations encouraged as demand for skilled labor grows

Jan 29, 2023 The Arizona Commerce Authority estimates that by 2030, the number of people employed in construction and manufacturing jobs in the state are expected to rise 30% and more than 20%, respectively.
Artist’s conception of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

NASA grants UA space facility $3,000,000

Jan 27, 2023 The funding will support researchers' search for clues from the earliest days of the solar system
File image of a row of lockers in a school.

Cochise County working on school communication system

Jan 27, 2023 State dollars could pay for the secure system.
The Nogales Buffalo Soldiers tribute was held for the first time in 2022, when this photo was taken.

Honoring African American soldiers from last century

Jan 27, 2023 Descendants and others gather for 2nd Annual Nogales Buffalo Soldiers Salute
Cochise College in Sierra Vista.

Cochise College public safety program expanding facilities

Jan 24, 2023 Funding for the projects came from multiple sources.
Measuring shoes and cataloging their treads are tasks Grand Canyon University students do as they add shoes to a shoeprint database they’re working on with the Phoenix Police Department. The photo was taken at GCU in Phoenix on Nov. 3.

Student gumshoes at GCU collaborate with Phoenix police to create shoeprint database

Jan 22, 2023 Forensic scientists can identify shoeprints left at crime scenes, including what type of shoe and what size the suspect wears.
NASA illustration of cubesats in orbit.

UA students prepare to put their own cubesat into space

Jan 21, 2023 The cereal box-sized "CatSat" will transmit data to UA's Biosphere 2.
Senior Adrina Wilder works on an electric vehicle during class at Cactus High School in Glendale on Oct. 31, 2022. (Photo by Samantha Chow/Cronkite News)

High school students build a road-worthy electric vehicle

Jan 21, 2023 All the parts for the roadworthy EV the students are constructing this semester came from Switch Vehicles in California.
The Arizona State Capitol building.

Bill that restricts student's pronouns moves past committee

Jan 20, 2023 The bill would require teachers to gain parental permission to use a pronouns that are different from a student's biological sex.
Flowers, candles and letters lay in front of the Harshbarger building sign following the murder of Professor Thomas Meixner on Wed. Oct. 5, 2022 at the University of Arizona. Meixner was killed by a former student on campus.

UA announces new safety strategies months after deadly shooting

Jan 18, 2023 The changes include expanded background checks, new security access to buildings and trainings.
9-year-old Jody cuts the ribbon of the new African American Museum of Southern Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Jody sparked the idea of creating the museum when he found out there was not a spot in Tucson that shares Black history.

African American Museum of Southern Arizona opens

Jan 16, 2023 The museum officially opened on Saturday, Jan. 14 and is located at the University of Arizona.

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