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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.
By Lisa Davis
Dont Keep Those Cards Coming
Foundations' wish is to stop achain letter requesting business cards for dying boy
Gasket Case
During her 14-year marriage to an auto-parts mogul, Denise Hrudka lived in the lap of luxury. Then her husband stood up.
A HOUSE DIVIDED
COUNTRY-CLUB LIVING IS NOT WHAT IT WAS CRACKED UP TO BE FOR ELLEN AND JOEL BARISH
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.
QUIET RIOTIN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED, THE PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS IMPOSED A CONTRACT ON ITS TEACHERS
LIBERAL TO A FAULTA LONG-RUNNING POLITICAL FEUD HAS BROUGHT DEMOCRATIC SOUTHWEST PHOENIX LITTLE BUT INTRIGUE, PARANOIA--AND A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION
UNCHARTERED WATERSFEDERAL DESEGREGATION RULES BLOCK ENROLLMENTS IN CHARTER SCHOOLS
ANATOMY OF A MURDER VICTIM
DEPARTMENT STORE SALES CLERK MUFFIN SHEW CONSTANTLY TALKED ABOUT HER DAYS AS A SPY, HER CELEBRITY FRIENDS AND HER HIGH GOVERNMENT CONTACTS. THEN SHE TURNED UP DEAD IN HER BACKYARD.
HEY, FIFE, CAN YOU SPARE SOME PLASTER?WHILE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE UNDERGOES FACE-LIFT, OLD CAPITOL BUILDING NEXT DOOR CRUMBLES
CURTAINS FOR WARNER'S?THERE'S NOTHING CHINTZY ABOUT WHAT'S AT STAKE AS INTERIOR DESIGNERS, BANKERS, LAWYERS SQUARE OFF IN AN UGLY FIGHT OVER A LONGTIME VALLEY DESIGN FIRM
SHORT-SHEETEDSTATE SCRAMBLES TO KEEP ITS PAPER-PUSHERS IN BUSINESS
FUN IN THE 122 DEGREE SIGN SUN
ULYSSES SANCHEZ WANTS TO TAKE PHOENIX FOR A RIDE. AND HIS DREAM OF A $200 MILLION THEME PARK IN THE DESERT MAY NOT BE AS CRAZY AS IT SOUNDS.
WHEN HARD WORK DOESN'T PAYTHIS SINGLE MOTHER'S CASE SHOWS WHY IT'S EASIER TO BE ON WELFARE
YOU, TOO, CAN OPEN A SCHOOL!IN ARIZONA, IT'S JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BUSINESS
THE CAT LADY VANISHES
AFTER THE FORMER SOCIALITE WENT TO A HOMELESS SHELTER, EVERYONE THOUGHT SHE WAS IN DEEP TROUBLE. BUT HELEN WHITNEY'S STORY WAS NEVER THAT SAD--OR THAT TIDY.
VOUCHERS GO QUIETLYTHE GOP'S TOP PRIORITY SPUTTERS AT THE CAPITOL
"DESERT RATS" VS. "DESERT RAPERS"NEW SUBDIVISIONS TRIGGER WEEKEND WARFARE BETWEEN DEVELOPERS, RESIDENTS
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.
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
EVICTIONS, SUBPOENAS, REPOS--CONSTABLES SPEND THEIR LIVES GIVING PEOPLE GRIEF. NOW THESE HARBINGERS OF HEARTBREAK JUST MIGHT BE LOOKING AT THEIR OWN PINK SLIPS.
CITIZEN, TEACH THYSELF
A NEW ARIZONA LAW DENIES PRESCHOOL SERVICES TO THE CHILDREN OF UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENTS--EVEN IF THE KIDS ARE U.S. CITIZENS