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- Students’ project goes up, up and away
- Crepe paper balloon stays airborne for four minutes
- February 2, 2010
- As the balloons rose up and into the air, Dwight Branson’s seventh- and eighth-grade students below jumped up and down with excitement as if they too were filled with hot air.
Schools stories
Articles, features and columns about the latest goings on in the Payson School District.- Lawmaker poised to help ASU, GCC
- February 5, 2010
- A bill that would make it possible for Arizona State University to assume management of Gila Community College’s Payson campus should hit the overflowing docket of the Legislature this week.
- Budget cuts worry teachers, administrators
- February 5, 2010
- Cuts within the Payson Unified School District have already corresponded into no money to replace decade-old textbooks and fewer teachers with fewer available class sections for students.
- GCC board members want staff to follow policy
- February 2, 2010
- Frustrated by their seeming powerlessness, two Gila Community College board members have written to Eastern Arizona College President Mark Bryce, urging him to ensure GCC administrators follow policy set by the GCC board.
- Plans for schools’ forest funds create confusion
- February 2, 2010
- The feeding frenzy began last week when $1.98 million in federal money for schools countywide landed precisely in the squalor of declining budgets and hoped-for overrides.
- Payson, ASU clear campus hurdles
- January 29, 2010
- Payson and Arizona State University negotiators have resolved the biggest questions about building a four-year college campus in Payson, but devilish details remain, according to Payson Mayor Kenny Evan
- Lobbying contract would help EAC over Gila college
- January 29, 2010
- Gila Community College will pay $36,000 this year to a lobbyist that also represents Eastern Arizona College, and who is contractually required to side with EAC should a conflict of interest arise.
- Payson High student earns Naval Academy appointment
- January 29, 2010
- Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick has nominated 11 Arizonans to our nation’s service academies for the Class of 2014, including Payson High School senior Nicholas Walker. He was selected by the congresswoman for nomination to the U.S. Naval Academy.
- Drug-free calendar contest winners named
- January 27, 2010
- Students who won the Gila County Attorney’s Office “I Am Drug-Free, Because I Want to be A …” calendar coloring contest congregated in the Payson supervisor’s office recently to receive their awards. Chief Deputy Patti Wortman announced the winners.
- School board will face tough budget decisions
- January 26, 2010
- Faced with a budget deficit of at least $1 million for the next school year, the Payson Unified School District board is treading lightly, leaving it up to the superintendent to formulate proposals for a balanced budget, members agreed Monday night.
- Young students given chance to catch up
- January 26, 2010
- “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” set to a Hawaiian tune lilts out over Mimi Dailey’s pre-first grade classroom, where roughly a dozen students sing the song and simultaneously gesture in sign language.
- DECA students win 34 awards at regional career conference
- January 26, 2010
- Payson High School’s DECA Chapter let the rest of the state know it will be a chapter to watch in upcoming competitive events.
- Feature Teacher
- January 26, 2010
- I teach because I am surrounded daily with wonderful people, my students, my students’ parents, my principal, and my co-workers. I always say if I have a bad day it is my own fault; children are beautiful people.
- Pine spellers
- January 26, 2010
- Just peeking over the lectern, Meghan Bridgers is barely able to see the judges as she correctly spells her first word.
- GCC offers classes in Pine
- January 26, 2010
- Gila Community College is offering eBay As A Home-Based Business and a Photoshop course in Pine.
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