Arizona has the highest infection rate in the country, with a rolling seven-day average of 100 daily new reported cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents.
These grants provide support toward the deployment of officers for DUI enforcement and underage alcohol consumption and possession violations in addition to traffic enforcement.
Ducey plans in making investments in K-12 education, public health, public safety, wildfire prevention, infrastructure and more, while also providing tax relief to residents.
Businesses are working on everything from curing cancer to developing an app to help correct posture. The reasons why startups have teamed up with UACI are as diverse as the businesses themselves.
Students are facing college application deadlines without entrance exam scores, community service records and resumes flush with extracurricular activities.
As schools operating in a distance learning model are still required to provide a physical space for the most at-risk students, the Boys and Girls Club of AZ and YMCA have stepped up to help schools fulfill this requirement.
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, the Sunnyside Unified School District’s Governing Board unanimously decided schools will remain in the remote learning model until further notice.
From Jan. 4 to Jan. 22, parents may receive the free meals along bus routes at designated times and at select MUSD schools from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m, except weekends.
On Saturday, December 2, Ducey rejected state education officials request for him to order public schools to use only distance learning for the next two weeks unless they have waivers from health officials.
Their mask design has separate pouches for your nose and mouth to prevent overheating and glasses from fogging up. The mask was also designed to lift up easily for eating and drinking. The design took home the top prize.
Executive Vice President and University Provost Mark Searle sent a letter to the ASU community saying the spring semester will now end on May 1, he also stated there will not be a traditional spring break.
Arizona State University officials have confirmed that the school’s 2021 spring break is canceled, and students will also attend a shortened spring semester.
The modification is a temporary change in grading practices and policies in an effort to compensate for the learning challenges presented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Some believe a “passing” grade would alleviate some of the academic pressure for students.
The goal of the COVID-19 Resource & Communication Center is to be a one-stop spot for families to get the latest information on how the pandemic is affecting education.
On Dec. 12th, officials with the Tanque Verde Unified School District announced its students will be fully returning to remote learning by Monday, Dec. 14th.
According to a statement released on Dec. 11th, students attending schools in the Sahuarita School District will continue with remote learning for at least two more weeks after the end of winter break.
This comes after the district governing board voted Wednesday, Dec. 9 to stay with in-person learning five days a week, without hybrid or virtual options.
The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning, including some that took a battering from outbreaks.
It’s another layer of the “tremendous stress” faced by administrators and educators navigating the pandemic, said Dan Domenech, executive director of AASA, the nation’s leading school superintendents association.
After a long meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 27, the board finally passed the motion on a 3-2 vote allowing students to begin the hybrid-learning option on Thuesday, Nov. 12.
After OSIRIS-REx’s succesful mission in outer space, NASA officials have determined that the spacecraft captured more than enough material from the asteroid Bennu.
The latest COVID-19 numbers at the University of Arizona show no one has tested positive since Friday, but the university will soon start testing students before heading into the Thanksgiving break.
Many students at the San Xavier Mission School didn’t have laptops or computers for virtual learning but the community worked together to raise tens of thousands of dollars and get the technology they needed.
The Pima County Superior Court Adult Probation LEARN program is joining the national “Move Ahead With Adult Ed” campaign to help adults gain skills to join the workforce.
The full Senate is slated to take up the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Friday, Oct. 23. The final vote is expected the following week, days before the election.
Under the new pricing program for school lunches, meals will be provided for free or at reduced-price for children whose families meet low income elegibility requirements.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending flexibilities to allow free meals to continue to be available to all children throughout the entire 2020-2021 school year.
Thousands of U of A students are expected to return to campus Monday, bringing the total number of students attending in-person class to nearly 10,000. This is raising concerns among faculty and students who say the university isn’t being transparent when it comes to health safety.
