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The Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction is an elected state executive position in the Arizona state government. The superintendent oversees the state of Arizona's public school system and directs the state's Department of Education. The state superintendent's powers are mostly administrative, with little influence over education policy ...
To graduate from an Arizona public high school, a student had to meet the AIMS High School Graduation Requirement. The most common way to meet this requirement was to pass the writing, reading, and mathematics content areas of the AIMS HS test. High school students had multiple opportunities to take and pass these content areas.
Education reform in the United States since the 1980s [1] has been largely driven by the setting of academic standards for what students should know and be able to do. These standards can then be used to guide all other system components. The SBE (standards-based education) reform [2] movement calls for clear, measurable standards for all ...
Starting teacher salaries remain in the low $40,000s, despite Arizona's last pay raise plan. That hurts recruitment and retention in a major way. Arizona teachers deserve a giant pay raise.
Students and teachers who had been a part of the Mexican American Studies Department Programs appealed the ruling that the program should be eliminated. [6] In July 2013, a federal court decided that culturally relevant courses should be in place in the TUSD, specifically Mexican American Studies and African American Studies, in order to comply ...
Under the Obama Administration, over 1 billion dollars were spent developing databases designed for improving the educational system, including P-20 longitudinal data systems. Although these databases do contain extensive personally identifiable information , much of this information is "not kept in a format that allows officials to easily ...
This is a list of school districts in Arizona. It is divided by county. It is divided by county. Arizona school districts are independent governmental entities as classified by the U.S. Census Bureau .
Mesa Public Schools (incorporated as Mesa Unified School District #4) is the largest public school district in the state of Arizona, headquartered in Mesa. It has approximately 64,000 students. The district has, in addition to regular programs, Montessori, International Baccalaureate, dual-language immersion, honors, and Advanced Placement courses.