Cecilia Moreno's kids went to school in the Cartwright School District, and she led the lawsuit challenging the legality of Lydia Hernandez and her daughter, Cassandra Hernandez, being on the board simultaneously.
Gilbert Public Schools are installing weapon detectors to enhance student safety, aiming to create a more secure learning environment across all high school campuses.
Arizona homeschool parents are protesting the new ESA handbook's spending caps on educational items, arguing that they limit their ability to provide necessary resources for learning.
School districts across the country are looking for ways to improve reading test scores. The Avondale Elementary District’s “Literacy Hub” at Lattie Coor School may be part of the solution.
The Arizona Department of Education has launched a new webpage listing which school districts and charter schools are complying with the recent federal order on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and which ones are not.
After months of heated and contentious school board meetings, Arizona’s Family sat down with the person at the center of the controversy, Cartwright Elementary school board president Lydia Hernandez.
Arizona’s top public schools official is urging a Phoenix district board to reconsider a request that would have placed armed officers in two of its high schools.
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funding from public schools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, leaving Arizona educators worried about compliance and resources.
President Trump's executive order to close the Department of Education aimed to return control to the states. Arizona's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, supports the move, believing it will save money and raise teacher salaries, but constitutional law experts predict immediate legal challenges.
Approximately 130,600 college students in Arizona receive federal financial aid. Amid mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education, there are concerns about what's next.
By The Associated Press and COLLIN BINKLEY and JOCELYN GECKER
An hours-long outage on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, has underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education.
By AZFamily Digital News Staff, The Associated Press and Peter Valencia
The U.S. Department of Education has sent a letter to 60 universities, including Arizona State University, that they are under investigation for possible civil rights violation toward Jewish students.
Nearly 20% of all funding for public schools comes from the federal government to support low-income students, special education and even school lunches
