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Goldwater Report: Arizona K-12 School Superintendents Earn Up To $500K With Perks

Sep 26, 2025

By Matthew Holloway | After overcoming months of stonewalling, the Goldwater Institute has issued a report revealing that school district superintendents in Arizona are awarded some of the most lucrative public service contracts in the state. The report, by...

Arizona State University Gets $115 Million For Globalist Conservation School

Sep 24, 2025

By Staff Reporter | Arizona State University (ASU) received $115 million to establish a new school of conservation with a globalist drive. The millions from the Rob Walton Foundation, a sustainability nonprofit, launched the Rob Walton School of Conservation...

Poll: Arizona Voters Back More Parental Control In Schools—But Politics Drives The Divide

Sep 24, 2025

By Ethan Faverino | A new Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) survey from Noble Predictive Insights (NPI) reveals that Arizona voters favor greater parental control over education and support restrictions on classroom discussions about race, gender, and sexuality....

Horne Calls For Increased School Safety After Knife Fight At Carl Hayden High School

Sep 22, 2025

By Ethan Faverino | Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is urging the Phoenix Union High School District to reverse its decision to reject armed officers on campus following a violent knife fight between two female students at Carl Hayden High...

Public Records Stonewalling? DVUSD Under Fire Ahead Of Override Vote

Sep 20, 2025

By Staff Reporter | Community members are questioning delays in Deer Valley Unified School District (DVUSD) releases of public records. Tiffany Hawkins, a former board candidate and parent in the district, reported DVUSD “buried” about 3,000 emails in a public records...

Trump’s Education Department To Give ‘Historic’ Investment In School Choice

Sep 18, 2025

By Staff Reporter | The Department of Education (ED) announced a significant new investment in school choice. On Monday, ED pledged “historic” investments into charter schools, American history and civics programs, Historically Black Colleges and...

Nation’s Report Card Reveals Alarming Decline In Student Performance Across The Country

Sep 16, 2025

By Ethan Faverino | The U.S. Department of Education released the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, known as the Nation's Report Card, revealing historic lows in academic performance for eighth and twelfth-grade students in science,...

Sex-Ed Books Pulled From Children’s Sections In Several Maricopa County Libraries

Sep 14, 2025

By Matthew Holloway | A dozen Maricopa County libraries have removed more than 50 books on sex education and puberty from their children’s sections. The move follows complaints from parents and advocacy groups who said the books contained inappropriate material. As...

Horne Calls For Legislature To Spend $180 Million On Securing Arizona Schools

Sep 8, 2025

By Matthew Holloway | With the tragic murder of a Maryvale High School student and the brutal attack against the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN, still fresh in public memory, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne submitted a legislative...

Grand Canyon University Projects Record Enrollment

Sep 5, 2025

By Matthew Holloway | Grand Canyon University announced projections for record-breaking student enrollment for the 2025-26 academic year with as many as 133,000 Antelopes or ‘Lopes’ as they’re called, donning the Christian university’s signature purple and black. The...

Phoenix Union High School District Faces Controversy Over Proposed Contract With ‘Leftist Activist Group’

Sep 4, 2025

By Ethan Faverino | The Phoenix Union High School District (PXU) is set to vote on a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC), an Arizona-based nonprofit, at its upcoming school board meeting. The agreement, effective from July 1,...

Horne Calls Out AG Mayes For ‘Misleading The Public’ On ESA Program

Sep 2, 2025

By Matthew Holloway | Responding to a letter issued by Arizona Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne issued a statement that Mayes is “misleading the public with claims she has leveled at the management of the...