During the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting, they are celebrating the impact Girl Scouts has made since 1912. On Dec. 1, Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (GSACPC) invites the community to the Women & Young Women of Distinction Awards ceremony, where they will acknowledge how they empower girls to reach their full potential. At the ceremony, Leadership, Visionary and Courage Awards will be given to three women and three young women, characterizing their impact on the community.

Becky Henderson, principal at Gilbert Unified School District's Harris Elementary School, has been selected as a finalist in the Rodel Exemplary Principal Initiative. The program was created to recognize the success of Arizona's most exceptional principals and to train the next generation of school leaders. Henderson is one of 17 statewide finalists.

SUPERIOR – It’s hard to imagine that this sleepy town would produce engineers and robotics experts in great numbers. But before he left to major in computer science at Arizona State University, Christopher Floyd and high school classmates had already built two robots on a team sponsored by Resolution Copper Mining.

Three Mesa Unified School District teachers have been named semifinalists for the Rodel Charitable Foundation's Exemplary Teacher Initiative. The teachers being honored for "extraordinarily high levels in high poverty schools" are: Eleanor Scheman, a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary School; and James Clemens, a fourth-grade teacher, and Nancy LaSlavic, a third-grade teacher, at Kerr Elementary School.

Scales Technology Academy first-grade teacher Linda Omer was named a 2011 Rodel Exemplary Teacher by the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona. The Tempe teacher is one of just eight teachers to receive the honor in Maricopa County.

In a quiet classroom, 25 students sit in desks, heads down, working on the day's writing assignment, a compare/contrast essay about men and women.

Desert Ridge High School science teacher Sylvia Grace has been recognized by Science Foundation AZ and The Rodel Foundation as an “Innovation Hero.”

LAKESIDE, Calif. — The wife of the casino gaming commissioner killed by an ex-employee says her husband was about to leave his job because he didn't like being ordered to fire people.

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PHOENIX - At one end of the classroom, Jessica Alexander, Mabel Muñoz and five other high school students discuss immigration’s impact on education in Arizona.

WASHINGTON - The Senate is expected to vote as early as this week on whether to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, as well as on a softer measure calling for troops to leave this fall.

The numbers drew Francis “Skip” Fennell to Frank Elementary School this week in Guadalupe.

The numbers drew Francis “Skip” Fennell to Frank Elementary School this week in Guadalupe.

Jason Williams started his career teaching math and science to sixth-graders at California’s lowest-performing middle school. Now, nearly 10 years later, he says the lessons he learned in that classroom will help him lead Arizona’s schools as state superintendent of public instruction.

Jason Williams started his career teaching math and science to sixth-graders at California’s lowest-performing middle school. Now, nearly 10 years later, he says the lessons he learned in that classroom will help him lead Arizona’s schools as state superintendent of public instruction.

If there is one thing Webster’s dictionary can’t define, it’s high school reform.

Gov. Janet Napolitano took the national stage Tuesday to unveil her Democrat task force's plan to improve our clunky public school system. It contains some salient points, some questionable ones, and ignores promising educational options outside the traditional system.

Arizona’s largest school district is planning a major expansion of high school programs to give students the option of attending smaller, more specialized campuses.

Arizona’s largest school district is planning a major expansion of high school programs to give students the option of attending smaller, more specialized campuses.

Dozens of strategies exist that might boost student achievement in Arizona.

January 30, 2005

Gov. Janet Napolitano today plunges headlong into the roiling waters of parenthood, schools and the state’s economic future as she unveils an early childhood education plan that promises to be as expensive as it is contentious.

For years, Arizona educators and lawmakers have tussled over how much money is needed to fund the state’s public schools. An $80,000 study aims to find the truth: Is funding adequate, or is it simply being misused?

Philip R. Regier, the associate dean for undergraduate programs, has been named interim dean of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University effective July 1.