A Fountain Hills teacher is fighting back after she claims she was wrongfully terminated for defending a student against racist bullying. Pamela Aister, a 70-year-old fourth-grade teacher, was fired this fall because of an incident that allegedly occurred at Four Peaks Elementary School in Fountain Hills in May. Aister had…
Arizona State University engineering student Jason Kerestes’ jetpack won’t let its wearers fly — but running like the wind may be the next best thing. Kerestes, a graduate student and welding expert, is the “mastermind” behind the 4MM project, a combined effort by ASU and the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
When students are accepted to both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, a majority choose to attend ASU, according to one set of statistics. It’s not a sure thing, but Parchment, a company that helps students transfer their official high school transcripts to colleges, looked at its users’…
Three former schools chiefs–including a Republican–have endorsed Democrat David Garcia in his bid for State Superintendent of Public Instruction…
After a spring marred by his controversial blog posts and accusations of racism, State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal lost his bid for reelection in last night’s Republican primary…
Incumbent State Superintendent of Public Education John Huppenthal lost his bid for reelection in tonight’s Republican primary. With almost 70 percent of precincts reporting, results show Huppenthal with about 41 percent of the vote and opponent Diane Douglas with about 57 percent…
A police task force in Tempe focused on alcohol-related crimes made 392 arrests over the weekend, which was the first weekend since the fall semester started at Arizona State University. This is the second year that the Tempe Police Department has organized its “Safe and Sober” campaign at the start…
State Superintendent of Public Education John Huppenthal has made mixed statements about his stance on Common Core. Today, the incumbent may have flip-flopped still again…
The experimental drug used to treat two American health care workers infected with the Ebola virus was developed in part by researchers right here at ASU. They hope that the special plant-based technology used to create the Ebola treatment might be an important path to treating other infectious diseases…
The debate over Common Core has been central to the race for State Superintendent of Public Education, and one challenger of incumbent John Huppenthal’s claims that his opponent is sending mixed signals on exactly where he stands…
Ersula Ore, the assistant professor at Arizona State University whose violent arrest became national news because of a viral video, was sentenced today to nine months’ supervised probation. Ore pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of passively resisting arrest, a misdemeanor. She’d been charged originally by the Maricopa…
Teach for America, the non-profit organization that trains volunteers to teach in public schools, will launch 125 newly-trained teachers into Valley schools beginning as soon as this month. This new batch of teachers will bring the total number of local volunteers in the two-year program up to 250. For some,…
A second high-ranking Arizona State University police department official is stepping down unexpectedly following a backlash over the arrest of assistant professor Ersula Ore. Another email that surfaced on a blog by people disgruntled with ASU police confirms that Assistant Chief James Hardina is leaving this week. ASU Police Chief…
John Pickens, campus police chief for Arizona State University, is leaving his position earlier than expected after the video of a professor’s arrest created a firestorm of criticism. As first reported Thursday in the Integrity Report, a blog by an “anonymous coalition of people associated with the ASU Police Department,”…
Arizona State University police confirmed this afternoon that Officer Stewart Ferrin is still on leave and under investigation despite Ersula Ore’s guilty plea this morning. ASU media-relations director Sharon Keeler still hasn’t returned our morning message, but we just checked with ASU Police Chief John Pickens’ office, and his assistant…
Ersula Ore, the Arizona State University assistant professor whose arrest video went viral, has pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest. Commissioner Julie Mata set Ore’s sentencing for August 1 at 8:30 a.m…
Arizona State University officials announced on Thursday afternoon that a deal was nearing completion to take over the venerable Thunderbird School of Global Management. The deal would be beneficial to both institutions, their respective presidents claim. The international business school, founded in 1946, would become part of ASU’s W.P. Carey…
Supporters and students of Arizona State University assistant professor Ersula Ore packed a courtroom this morning for a hearing on the viral-video star’s criminal charges. The hearing was a procedural step on the way toward a possible trial on four charges stemming from Ore’s now-famous May 20 arrest by ASU…
Are you serious? Police dash-cam video of the action-packed, May 20 arrest of Ersula Jawanna Ore, a 33-year-old rhetoric and English assistant professor at Arizona State University, has gone viral, feeding claims of racism and police brutality. As publicity grows along with an accompanying firestorm of criticism leveled at ASU,…
Arizona State University President Michael Crow hopes his tuition-discount deal with Starbucks boosts online enrollment by 15,000 students, toward a goal of 100,000. Just fewer than 10,000 were enrolled for the fall 2013 semester, with about two-thirds of those undergraduate, and another third graduate students. The free advertising ASU and…
Heads up to those spending any part of their weekend in Tempe: Police are planning “heavy enforcement” of alcohol-related laws.Police say this is a response to the death of 18-year-old Arizona State University student Naomi McClendon, who died last weekend after falling 10 stories from the balcony of an apartment…
Yes, Playboy is still around, and “Miss April 2014” is a local.Playboy’s marketing department tells us “Miss April,” Shanice Jordyn, went to high school in Ahwatukee, and now attends Arizona State University…
