Subject: Thomas Pappas

• Board Games

  Maricopa County schools chief Sandra Dowling plays to win--of course, as a governing board of one, she doesn't have much competition

  August 28, 1997

• Sandra D-Minus

  Former employees hand county schools chief flunking grade in public ethics

  December 18, 1997

• Phoenix Police Summoned After Schools Superintendent Swiped Files from Her Own Office

    Martha Strachan Sandra DowlingPoor Sandra Dowling. The former Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools just can't catch a break. First there was the criminal indictment -- charged with 25 counts related to public corruption, she was presumed to be a crook in newspaper headlines across the state. Then, while the criminal case was still pending, a court-appointed board of receivers shuttered her beloved Thomas J. Pappas schools for homeless children. The c

  March 2, 2009

• Money Shot

  If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

  December 27, 2007

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 13, 2006

  July 13, 2006

• Flunk'd

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

  June 29, 2006

• Ride and Go Seek

  Central City cyclists discover downtown

  October 30, 2003

• House Hold

  The dearth of affordable housing has reached the crisis stage

  May 24, 2001

• Master of Her Domain

  County schools chief Dowling is still a one-woman school board

  March 23, 2000