State Rep. Walt Blackman is on a crusade to prevent schools anywhere from teaching “critical race theory,” in his bid to unseat Democratic Con… Read more
The Payson school board this week grilled administrators on whether the host of students quarantined for COVID-19 can keep up with their classes. Read more
Payson schools remain a COVID hot spot, as the fierce national debate about how to contain the pandemic turns to vaccine mandates. Read more
Public schools across the state must juggle a whole new series of state laws covering hot-button topics like sex education, discipline policie… Read more
The Payson school board voted unanimously to support the ambitious lobbying priorities of the Arizona School Boards Association. Read more
Well, it’s official. Read more
Payson’s got one big believer in its growth potential. Read more
One of the worst-funded public school systems in the country took another hit when the Arizona Supreme Court knocked the legs out from under P… Read more
Payson schools bowed to the sternly worded advice of the Gila County Health Department last week and approved a mandatory 10-day quarantine fo… Read more
A surge in COVID cases on campus prompted the Payson school board to tweak its pandemic protocols at an emergency meeting on Monday. Read more
Handcuffed by state mandates, the Payson school board last week adopted a minimalist set of COVID precautions for the just-launched, in-person… Read more
Payson schools went skipping, whirling, booming back into business this week, with students and teachers reunited in classrooms brimming with kids. Read more
The Payson school board adopted an ambitious set of goals for the upcoming year, which included big ticket items like boosting student test sc… Read more
Things have gone smoothly as Payson schools move toward a four-day class week when school resumes on Aug. 2, said Superintendent Linda Gibson. Read more
The Arizona Legislature has approved a nearly $13 billion state budget that included a massive tax cut, but mostly rejected the pleas of educa… Read more
The Payson school board has adopted a surprisingly robust budget for the upcoming school year, thanks mostly to a rush of federal pandemic funding. Read more