As Payson schools head into the second week of in-person classes, COVID cases have started to surge statewide. Read more
Arizona’s education sinkhole is awfully deep. Read more
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Rim Country children trooped back to in-person classes this week in the Payson Unified School District, with five weeks of measurements showin… Read more
Fires that have charred 5 million acres on the West Coast and killed at least 27 people have highlighted the long, frustrating, stalled effort… Read more
State legislative candidate Brenda Barton made an impassioned plea for the Second Amendment, school choice and teaching Christian moral princi… Read more
Gila County has finally hit the advisory state benchmarks for at least a hybrid reopening of schools — with a mix of in-person and online clas… Read more
Arizona’s teacher shortage has grown worse in the long shadow of the pandemic. Read more
Gila County this week still could not meet the state’s benchmarks for reopening schools with a hybrid in-person and online model. Read more
Payson’s struggling to boost scores for students with special needs, but the pandemic has complicated everything. Read more
Even if Gila County can’t meet the state benchmarks by Oct. 12, Payson schools will return to in-person classes with a normal schedule, the Pa… Read more
Gila County is now one of just five counties that doesn’t meet the state’s advisory benchmarks. Read more
The letters ought to make teachers proud — and break their hearts. Read more
Gila County is one of two counties in the state that has so far met only one of the state benchmarks to open schools for in-person classes. Read more
Eastern Arizona College’s Payson campus has been battered by the pandemic, losing students, teachers and course offerings. Read more
A ballot measure that would raise a billion dollars for Arizona’s K-12 schools by boosting the state’s top tax rate has sharply divided the ca… Read more
The high court overturned a Superior Court judge’s ruling that the 100-word description of the Invest in Education ballot measure on the top o… Read more
Gila County still can’t meet the state’s benchmarks showing it’s safe to reopen schools. Read more
The pandemic benchmarks and the glitches in distance learning have improved — but the woes of some parents and students are growing. Read more
Payson schools have suffered a 10% enrollment drop and overtaxed teachers are struggling to keep students connected, but overall the shift to … Read more
As school boards across the state agonize about whether to offer a return to in-person classes, new research as well as problems in schools th… Read more
