Tim Steller: AZ grading system hurts 3 Edge schools

You can't say that schools for lower-performing students get no recognition.

PCC board selects Lambert as new chancellor

Pima Community College has its next chancellor.

Arizona senators add millions to budget plan; CPS, universities, gene researchers among beneficiaries

PHOENIX - State senators approved their version of a new $8.8 billion budget Thursday - but not before adding millions of dollars in spending to the original Republican plan.

Obama taps Gabrielle Giffords to help pick Fulbright scholars

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is tapping former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for the board that selects recipients for Fulbright scholarships.

Education takes free form at Highland Free School

Third-grader Hunter Dorris, 9, feeds a Nigerian pygmy goat at Highland Free School. The alternative charter elementary school also houses goats, ducks, chickens and rabbits that the students care for.

Education takes free form at Highland Free School

First-grader Alex Harow hangs from the school's custom-welded playground equipment. Highland Free School was opened in 1970.

Tim Steller: Column about Basis, UHS hits nerves on both sides

No school arouses passions around Tucson like Basis does.

Education takes free form at Highland Free School

Highland Free School is unlike most others in Tucson.

Budget cuts nix $90M in federal college aid

WASHINGTON - Schools near military bases and tribal lands will face a $60 million shortfall between now and September, and aid to college students will be cut by almost $90 million, according to the Education Department's plan to carry out the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress.

Fitz Blog: Arizona moves ahead with plan to destroy public education

Letters to the editor

Low education funding an unattractive feature

Guest Column: State leaders turn blind eye to socio-economic factors at 'bad' schools

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Guest Column: State leaders turn blind eye to socio-economic factors at 'bad' schools

Some of the state's "best" schools, judged just by test scores, are part of the same school district as some of the "worst."

Pima College sets forums for chancellor candidates

Four finalists for the top job at troubled Pima Community College will be in Tucson next week for a series of public forums and meet-and-greets with employees.

Basis Tucson, University High among nation’s best schools

A Basis Tucson charter school is ranked second highest in the nation and its Scottsdale campus is ranked fifth, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Students from Tucson's Desert View High sent home after bomb threat

Desert View High School officials are in the process of sending students home after a bomb threat was reported this morning at the school.

Academy del Sol hopes to fill gap left by Hohokam's closure

A Tucson charter school will expand to the far southwest side next school year.

Tucson's Pima Community College placed on probation

Pima Community College has been placed on probation by its accreditor.

Sunnyside’s Isquierdo withdraws as candidate for Texas post

SAN ANTONIO —The man named as lone finalist for the San Antonio public school superintendent vacancy is withdrawing his candidacy.

Fitz Blog: School Sex scandal headlines

Area High School art teacher gets 3-years for sex with students, weeps at sentencing Male students victimized by high school art teacher receive high-fives, get wrong idea about women   Male students to receive counseling on feigning remorse, lectures from parents, awesome stories to tell …