Starting teachers would make $35,000 and earn $50,000 within a few years. Students would help evaluate schools and teachers. Bilingual instruction would return to Arizona’s schools.

PHOENIX – Arizona, which requires all children entering middle school to be vaccinated against meningitis, is now urging parents to get kids a booster dose five years later.

State education officials are launching a review of the AIMS test and whether it should be expanded or replaced, or lose its current high-stakes status for high school students.

Two-and-a-half years after Arizona voters rejected nearly all proposals to combine 76 elementary and high school districts around Arizona into 27 unified districts, state legislators are starting the steps to put the issue back in front of voters.

Arizona's schools saw half a percent drop in classroom spending, according to an annual report released Tuesday from the Auditor General.

Arizona's schools saw half a percent drop in classroom spending, according to an annual report released Tuesday from the Auditor General.

Arizona's schools saw half a percent drop in classroom spending, according to an annual report released Tuesday from the Auditor General.

Top-level executives and government leaders in China's largest commercial hub will begin classes Sept. 20 at the Arizona State University W.P. Carey MBA Shanghai, believed to be the first time a U.S. business school has partnered with the government of the People's Republic of China.

The poor economy must not keep states from investing in education, and states that don't will face consequences later such as lost competitiveness, more dropouts and higher rates of juvenile crime, the head of the National Parent Teacher Association said Tuesday.

Police are investigating whether an Apache Junction High School security guard behaved inappropriately with a 16-year-old female student.

State officials would have to sell off investments in some firms that do business in Iran under the terms of legislation given final approval Monday.

Mesa is home to Arizona’s largest school district — and a whopping $130 million worth of annual purchasing power for items ranging from lunch food to computers to athletic equipment.

The number of high schools with chronically low graduation rates has fallen in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a study released Monday by a group of education organizations.

Dirty bathrooms, closed trails and longer lines at Grand Canyon National Park. Furloughs for thousands of civilian defense workers. Reduced health care access.

The East Valley Tribune was named Arizona's Newspaper of the Year among large  publications in the 2009 Better Newspapers contest sponsored jointly by the Arizona Newspapers Association and the Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors.

Football is a dangerous game — and not just for the players.

They began as a mom-andpop company eight years ago with a dozen or so walk-in clients mostly from the East Valley.

Nationally, Arizona is viewed as the leader in providing families with school choice.

Seventeen-year-old Katie Abbott knows what defines a good teacher: It’s someone willing to spend extra time with a student to make sure a concept or skill has been learned.

Arizona is no longer ranked 50th in classroom spending. According to new data, the state comes in 49th.

Retirees love Arizona.

Arizona's economy is looking pretty grim as the state shifted from adding jobs to losing jobs in the first quarter.

"Cuanto?" asks a young man pointing to four bottles of car polish at a recent garage sale in an east Phoenix neighborhood.

PHOENIX - Parents are pulling students out of school. Construction workers are abandoning their jobs. Families are hastily moving out of apartments.