U.S. Department of Education

Department of Education to Look at Complaint of Queen Creek High School's "Redneck Day"

Phoenix civil-rights leader Reverend Jarrett Maupin is moving forward with a complaint to the Department of Education about Queen Creek High School's "Redneck Day."Maupin has shared with New Times some of the correspdonance he's had with the Department of Education, and the department's Office of Ci ... More >>

Prosecutors Team With Debt Collectors to Terrorize Consumers

Arizona's Number One in the United States! (For Highest Rate of High School Dropouts)

Out of all 50 states, there's no state where kids are dropping out of high school at a higher rate than Arizona.That's according to a report on graduation and dropout rates released today by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education.See also:-Ari ... More >>

Arizona AG Tom Horne's Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid

ASU Continues Depressing Showings in Party School Rankings: Newsweek Says 24th

In 2002, Arizona State University was named Playboy's top party school in the nation, dethroning Chico State -- which held the top spot in the nation for 15 years after becoming the first party school crowned by Playboy.ASU's reign among the party schools ended in 2006, when it dropped to third in P ... More >>

Schools Ignore Bullying of Gays at Their Own Peril

John Huppenthal Invokes Mein Kampf, Queen Boudica, and Hannibal, Rationalizing War on Ethnic Studies Students and Teachers

Hupp goes all Hannibal on the MAS crowd, 6:34 onWhat I like about Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is his consistency. You know when he opens his mouth, he's bound to say something stupid. It's just a matter of how stupid.His latest round of revelatory idiocies -- at leas ... More >>

Tom Horne's Pal Carmen Chenal's Bar File Partially Sealed by Judge

It's been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne's close friend Carmen Chenal's problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General's Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronie ... More >>

Pop-Tarts Are an OK School Snack But Oreos Aren't: What's a Mom to Do?

Flickr via KellBailey Gone are the days of cupcakes in the classroom. By now most parents know that. But are Pop-Tarts acceptable? What about a few Oreos? Snack Time became Headache Time this semester for one Tempe mom left shaking her head over just what's okay to serve kids in public school ... More >>

The Rock the R3volution Tour Was Supposed to Galvanize Ron Paul Supporters -- Then It Fell Apart

The Rock the R3volution Tour Was Supposed to Galvanize Ron Paul Supporters -- Then It Fell Apart

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

Attorney General Horne Hired Carmen Chenal to a Highly Paid Top Post -- 'Cause She's His Goomba

John Huppenthal's Whopper on Ethnic Studies: Cambium Report Doesn't Back Hup's Declaration that Tucson's MASD Program Violates the Law

Uriel GarciaHuppenthal, contradicting the findings of his own reportI've just finished reading the Cambium report on Tucson Unified School District's much-maligned Mexican American Studies Department. It's a shocker.Know why? Because the report itself concludes that "no observable evidence was prese ... More >>

Tom Horne Protested by Tucson Students Over Ethnic Studies Ban

Horne: He's against, like, overthrowing the government, and stuffHundreds of demonstrators protested Arizona Schools Superintendent Tom Horne in Tucson today over his backing of Sand Land's new ethnic studies ban. The new law forbids classes that teach "ethnic solidarity," promote the overthrow of t ... More >>

Lost in Translation: Autism Is Tough to Diagnose and Treat – and for Immigrant Families, It Can Be Impossible

Get Schooled

Finding the real problem

The Scarlet Letter

Sophie Fisher is autistic. Her mother isn't so sure she wants you to know

Broken

The system that serves tiny children with disabilities is nowhere near fixed, after years of trying on the governor's watch

Flunk'd

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

Crash Course

Fundamentalist Mormons lose control of Colorado City's school district, as a criminal investigation continues

Derail Polygamy's Money Train

A bill before the Legislature would allow the state to begin reforming a society that steals public money and abuses underage girls

Commentary

Arrest the Polyg Prophet Now!

What are authorities waiting for? Pedophile Warren Jeffs has looted school coffers and is on the run

Blasphemous Backlash

Ross Chatwin said no way to polygamy's holy man before the national press. Will others join him now?

Unfriendly Skies

Frank Nickman was the perfect pilot-in-training. But some thought he was just another terrorist.

Profits of Polygamy

Arizona launches a probe into alleged improper spending by the Colorado City school district

Complaints Congressional and Correctional

Letters from the week of August 8, 2002

Fiscal Fissure

Deep cuts proposed to state budget set up bleak future for Arizonans

Without Reservation

'Indian School Days' revisits a past to which no native should return

Habla Di, Habla Da, Strife Goes On

Federal ruling in bilingual-education lawsuit goes unheeded by state officials

Flashes

Abated Breath

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.

Bilingual Blues

This is not the way your grandfather learned English

A Call to Arms

Attorney goes to war over state agency's shoddy treatment of veterans

A Different School of Thought

The state's unabashed enthusiasm for charter schools stops at the borders of Indian reservations

So Sue Me

The court has spoken; lawmakers stand in defiance. But if the state Legislature doesn't come up with a constitutional school finance plan by July, school's out forever.

A Fine Mess

State agencies are reeling in the after-Fife, the ballyhooed state-budget surplus is all but spent, and the government bureaucracy is bigger than ever. Now it's up to Jane Dee Hull to make it all make sense.

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

Educator Reprimanded

State Board of Education censures former principal who failed to report molestation complaints

Come Laud PUHSD

Stop the presses: Here's some rare good news about public schools

The High Cost of Education Reform

The Symington administration touts market-based reform as a cure for Arizona's educational ills. Behind that rhetoric, state policies are driving public schools toward financial collapse.

FLASHES, 9-28

DOES NOT WORK TO CAPACITY

PHOENIX UNION'S DESEGREGATION PROGRAM PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS. BUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FLUNKED OUT WHEN IT CAME TO EDUCATING KIDS.

SENSITIVITY STRAINING

YEAR AFTER YEAR, DEBBIE MCQUEEN MAKES NEWS BY FORCING THE GOVERNMENT TO DEAL WITH A CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY SYNDROME THAT SHE CLAIMS AFFLICTS HER CHILDREN. THERE IS REASON TO WONDER HOW SICK THOSE KIDS ACTUALLY ARE.

RING AROUND THE DAY CAREPUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE THE LOSERS IN A MOVE TO DEREGULATE PRIVATE CHILD-CARE CENTERS

YOU, TOO, CAN OPEN A SCHOOL!IN ARIZONA, IT'S JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BUSINESS

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.

HEAD OF THE CLASSES

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

HIGHER YEARNING

INVESTORS WANT WESTERN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TO CASH IN ON THE MBA CRAZE. BUT THE SCHOOL HAS YET TO MASTER ITS OWN BUSINESS PROBLEMS