Elementary Education

Thomas Warner, Paradise Valley Elementary School Teacher, Jailed on Kiddie-Porn Charges

According to Thomas Warner, he's been an elementary school teacher in the Paradise Valley School District for 11 years.According to the Phoenix Police Department, he's also a kiddie-porn collector.Warner, 54, was arrested this morning after Phoenix cops from the Arizona Internet Crimes Against Child ... More >>

Teaching Spanish to White Kids Is All the Rage -- Even in Mexican-Bashing Arizona

Innocence Lost: Childhood in Juarez Often Is Spent Hiding Behind Closed Doors, Coping with Dead Bodies, and Seeing Ghosts

Budget Cuts Cause Coconino County to Suspend D.A.R.E. Program

​State and county budget cuts have forced the Coconino County Sheriff's Office to suspend the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for students in the county's elementary schools.The D.A.R.E. program started nationally in 1983, and the CCSO has participated in the it for more than 20 years. ... More >>

Purple Reign

Diana Taurasi and company look to return to championship form

Swine Flu Arizona: Phoenix School Closes; State Not "Overly Worried"

Image: www.wesdschools.orgMoon Mountain Elementary School Health officials closed a Phoenix elementary school today following a confirmed case of swine flu, but experts say they're not "overly worried" because United States illnesses have been mild.A child from Moon Mountain Elementary School in Nor ... More >>

ACLU Demands Peoria School District Allow Kid to Wear "Rainbows are Gay" Wristband

The American Civil Liberties Board of Arizona is threatening action against the Peoria Unified School District after an eighth-grade student was prohibited from wearing a "Rainbows are Gay" wristband. The 14-year-old gay student was told to wear the wristband inside out or quit w ... More >>

AZ Bully Expo @ Mesa Convention Center

Arizona pols play politics with the state’s disabled students

Press release of the week: Dad calls for school district to flunk his son

An "F" for Effort

Sandra Dowling left a huge mess. Now she's trying to stop the cleanup

Breathless

Despite a lot of hoopla at the beginning of Napolitano's administration, environmental protections for kids have not improved much

The State of Her State

Few argue that Janet Napolitano has been a good governor. The question is, why isn't she great?

Flunk'd

The Thomas J. Pappas School gives homeless kids everything they need — except a good education

Fast Times at Westwind junior high

Any way you add it up, kids at one Valley middle school were dealing meth out of their backpacks

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 27, 2005

Stray Cat Struts

A clear case of heiress-ment

Gone But Not Forgotten

Years after a hideous double murder, life goes on for surviving family members

Party System

A recent grad dishes dirt on ASU's party daze

D12

D12 World (Shady/Interscope)

Class Project

Tempe program uniting students and artists is a brushstroke of genius

History Lessons

Yavapai children used to call themselves "dumb Indians." Now they know better.

Tribe's efforts "definitely" working

It Takes a Tribe

A tiny Indian community struggles to educate its young

Passing Notes

After a Cashion schoolteacher wrote a mash note to a 12-year-old student, the district responded by reassigning him. But activists say that's not enough.

Learning Disorder

The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections fails the state's worst kids

Fuzzy Math

Mishandled money adds up to a loss for students at Roosevelt schools

The Musica Man

A valley junior college administrator is becoming an unlikely force in the national latin music movement

She's Not a Nun, But She Plays One in Scottsdale

Lunch at First Watch

One Tough Mother

By Laura Laughlin Sophia Lopez-Espindola's grassroots organization has survived bullets, business setbacks and political pitfalls

Policy Wanks

Arizona political leaders know the answers but can't seem to pass the violence-prevention test

Murphy's Law

Year after year, Murphy school district officials watched their students die in a hail of violence. They decided to take matters into their own hands.

Out of God's Hands

Why aren't more churches reaching out to kids in gang-ravaged neighborhoods?

Mentor's Lament

Even tough, effective teachers like Angela Kirkendall struggle to shield inner-city kids from the lure of the streets

Sun Burned

Gifted teacher branded a troublemaker after complaining of grade school's bizarre discipline

Cody Lynn Macy's Parade

A little girl with a big voice is poised to conquer country

Bilingual Blues

This is not the way your grandfather learned English

Pride and Prejudice

Nobody can say why Loi Nguyen fell through the cracks. All they can say is they're sorry.

Letters

Little Drummer Boy

Enslaved by the Bell

Does the newest member of the state Board of Education really believe that Satan lurks in Arizona classrooms?

Teacher Dearest

The free market alone was supposed to control charter schools, but the state is stepping in to clean up Gail Battistella's mess at Dragonfleye Charter School

Weird Science

Brainiac's experimental rock will boggle the mind

Once More With Feeling

When parents repeatedly complained that a teacher was fondling their sons, school administrators and police officers looked the other way

Mrs. Phelps' Kids

Five years after the kids last left her class, a veteran teacher catches up with former pupils from a tough grade school

FIFE'S EMPTY PROMISE

SYMINGTON PLEDGED TO IDENTIFY AND FIX "URGENT" PROBLEMS IN THE STATE'S POOREST SCHOOLS. BUT HE NEVER EXPECTED A $103 MILLION TAB.

OBSTRUCTION IN THE MAINSTREAMHANDICAPPED KIDS CAN PROSPER IN REGULAR SCHOOL CLASSES--SOMETIMES AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER STUDENTS

HEAD OF THE CLASSES

SCHOOL-BOARD ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT. VICIOUS, GOOFY AND CONFUSING, TOO.

LOCKING DOWN IN PARADISESCHOOLS ARE CONDUCTING DRILLS TO GUARD STUDENTS AGAINST RANDOM VIOLENCE

ARIZONA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM IS READY FOR REFORM SCHOOL

FOR ONCE, BIG BUSINESS AND EDUCATORS ARE IN CONCERT. BUT WILL LAWMAKERS FACE THE MUSIC