The Arizona Board of Regents is fighting back against a lawsuit filed over the collection of student fees.

The Peoria Unified School District is making plans to add another elementary school. The district says it’s needed because of what it says is explosive growth in the northwest Valley.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled a 2010 state law allowing school districts to spend unused bond money without asking voters is unconstitutional. 

Business leaders in Arizona are strongly backing the state’s transition to the Common Core standards – a multi-state effort in math and English that supporters say will teach students to think, rather than memorize facts.

Arizona’s public universities are usually described as thriving and constantly growing. But that enrollment boom comes with its growing pains.

The head of the state’s charter school board has found no reason to be concerned that teaching materials used in a Phoenix charter school have links to the Church of Scientology.

The Arizona House has taken the first steps toward restricting the use of isolation rooms, in public schools. 

According to some federal calculations, Arizona had the highest high school drop-out rate in the country in 2009-2010 school year. And that has education leaders worried about the future for those young people.

Arizona high school graduation rates have inched up in the past few years, though federal data show the state still ranks right near the national average.