WASHINGTON - Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!" "I didn't want to be the education secretary who didn't know how to spell potato," Spellings joked, describing how she read books and sought advice from a former show contender and her daughters.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will visit a Mesa charter school known for beating the odds in a low-income neighborhood.

The nation’s top education official visited a Mesa charter school Monday to promote reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The nation’s top education official visited a Mesa charter school Monday to promote reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

President Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind Act came up for reauthorization last year, but Congress couldn’t win agreement and it looks like the law may remain untouched this year, too.

Three East Valley organizations have been awarded a total of $450,000 in federal grants to create new charter schools.

I’d given up finding a Monte Cristo sandwich until I was at Neighbors on the northwest corner of Guadalupe and Alma School roads. They’re open for breakfast and lunch. The waitresses are helpful and friendly.

At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential campaign, but I’ll bet the Obama campaign now wishes Romney had passed the binders on to Obama since it seems he’s having a hard time picking women to fill his second term cabinet positions.

It would take a cold-blooded scrooge to deny the charms of “The Light in the Piazza,” the unabashedly swooning, Tony-winning musical whose tour has swept into Tempe’s Gammage Auditorium with all the grace and beauty of dried leaves in the autumn wind.

Mesa Arts Academy is a place of thought, where underprivileged children from the surrounding impoverished neighborhood come to learn.

Students across the nation are doing better on state reading and math tests since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted five years ago, according to a report released earlier this week.

July 6, 2004

Bill Murray as FDR?

Workers who lose teeth in an on-the-job injury are entitled to collect benefits for 18 months, even if they are not disfigured, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

An organization set up by the Legislature to administer science grants is asking a judge to order the state to surrender nearly $18.5 million taken from its budget.

Tom Horne’s seen this train coming for a while now. He’s been trying to derail it, but things aren’t looking too promising at the moment.

WASHINGTON - Millions of people rely on the American Red Cross for the ‘‘gift of life,’’ but how it collects and handles that blood has repeatedly violated federal regulations.

NEW YORK - Playwright William Gibson, whose "The Miracle Worker" has thrilled audiences for nearly a half-century with the true story of the deaf-blind Helen Keller's rescue from a world of ignorance, has died. He was 94.

States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law's requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress.

The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in "Beautiful Creatures," which clearly aims to pick up where the "Twilight" franchise left off.