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…
The Maricopa County Community College District urged voters to approve $951 million in bond sales in 2004 to prepare for a 60-percent projected increase in student enrollment. After it passed, the district spent hundreds of millions from the sale of the bonds to add or renovate nearly 2 million square…
Less than half of Arizona students meet the standards for attending Arizona universities, according to a recent report.The “Arizona Minority Student Progress Report 2013” prepared by the University of Arizona’s Center for Education also cites a warning from Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute: “Arizona is at risk of becoming a…
Jaime Castellano, a former school district superintendent in Apache County, resigned as executive director at a Pennsylvania charter school after the school disclosed why he’d left his job in Arizona.A local paper near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, reports that Castellano “resigned suddenly” last month, and it’s now been disclosed that Castellano gave…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and local Reverend Jarrett Maupin both have asked that ASU not expel students who attended an “MLK Black Party” hosted last week by fraternity members.The ACLU has chimed in saying the students’ actions are protected under the First Amendment, while Maupin, in a…
The Reverend Jarrett Maupin called for Tau Kappa Epsilon to be permanently banned from Arizona State University after the fraternity held an “MLK Black Party” on Monday.”TKE has a problem with African-American students,” the local black activist said at a press conference he called Tuesday at ASU’s downtown campus. “They…
Santa Clause is long gone, and that means the Tax Man is right around the corner. Time is running out for taxpayers to take advantage of the state’s dollar-for-dollar education tax credit, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is urging residents to funnel extra money to local schools…
Arizona State University fell well short of its bid to appear in the team’s first appearance in the Rose Bowl game since 1997.Stanford beat ASU 38-14, in a classic case of déjà vu…
Arizona State University is playing for the Pac-12 championship trophy tomorrow, in a rematch with a Stanford team that just about blew up the Sun Devils earlier this year.In anticipation of tomorrow’s game, we have 10 (almost-serious) ways ASU can beat Stanford this time around:…
Several DREAMers burned copies of their high school diplomas at the state Attorney General’s Office today to protest a lawsuit that would deny them in-state college tuition. Dressed in graduation garb, four group members then tried to deliver a burrito from a food truck to Horne, hoping to symbolize their…
