A 13-year-old Liberian boy accused of raping an 8-year-old Phoenix girl will undergo two months of classes to help him understand the court system.

October 30, 2004

January 19, 2005

Arizona’s future is tied to its education system. If our kids are college educated they are more likely to have better jobs with better pay.

Arizona’s future is tied to its education system. If our kids are college educated they are more likely to have better jobs with better pay.

The Arizona Department of Education released "letter grades" for each school on Aug. 2, 2012, demonstrating its rating of how the school is performing.

At age 4, Jamitri Geter is more interested in Clifford the Big Red Dog than the important role he plays in Arizona’s education marketplace.

Arizona’s university system comprising of only three public universities is insufficient and broken. One consequence of this is the expansion of the Arizona State University empire with the satellite campuses now charging the same tuition rate as the overcrowded main campus.

Arizona’s future is tied to its education system. If our kids are college educated they are more likely to have better jobs with better pay.

Richard Carmona (“Politicized attacks on Pell Grants misguided,” EVT 3/30) is right that a good education opens doors. What he fails to grasp is that incurring massive debt in exchange for an unmarketable degree often slams shut the door of opportunity. For many students, Pell Grants have simply been a gateway drug to a mountain of debt. As Carmona points out, Pell Grants cover less than a third of the cost of tuition, with the remainder often covered by government-subsidized loans. Mr. Carmona omits mention of loans entirely. Perhaps because it would complicate his partisan hit on Congressman Jeff Flake, whose comments about the government driving tuition inflation were clearly addressing the entire massive array of federal subsidies. Total student debt, much of which is subsidized by the government, recently topped one trillion dollars! If you think all that cash hasn’t led to inflation, then you may have a degree, but you missed the education.

Arizona State University is partnering with City University of Hong Kong to further develop flexible electronic systems.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard established an e-mail alert system to notify the public of consumer frauds and scams.

Students attending classes at the East Valley Institute of Technology will benefit from the power of the sun under the Salt River Project’s Solar for Schools program. The EVIT campus is the last of 13 schools in the Valley to receive a 10-kilowatt roof-mounted photovoltaic system.

August 13, 2004

We are hearing a lot these days from tea party advocates about the need to restore free enterprise, an implication that it has been taken away. We are told that democracy is built only upon the free enterprise system.

At SRP we have learned that many Arizonans who are diligent about getting oil changes and having their car inspected every time the odometer hits a major milestone do not practice the same level of care when it comes to maintaining their major electrical devices. While it may be tempting to leave your heating and air conditioning systems alone while they are working, a little preventative maintenance can go a long way toward preserving your investment.

Glenn Hamer, guest commentary

It's a nightmare scenario: a student showing up on campus with a gun, threatening classmates and administrators. But it's one that two East Valley districts are preparing for with an emergency computer system that's new to Arizona.

October 31, 2006

Tribune Investigation - Part 4 of 4

The majority of Arizona voters believe that a top-quality public school system is either crucial or very important to the future of Arizona, but few believe state funding reflects that commitment, according to findings in a recent Merrill/Morrison Institute poll.

November 7, 2004

Superintendents, charter school operators and others in the East Valley say they have a solution to prevent the "train wreck" that some see coming in 2006 when Arizona implements its highstakes graduation test.