Education Solutions

ASU’s new three-year education degrees offer Arizona Western College students a faster path to teacher certification through a new partnership.

Castle Dome Middle School has earned a Heart Safe School designation through Project ADAM after months of staff training, emergency drills and expanded access to automated external defibrillators.

On this week's Arizona Edition, remembering when Dolly Parton sang in Yuma, the state's top water official on negotiations and a close look at school vouchers.

Arizona’s State Board of Education has begun revising the state’s A-F school accountability system, starting with the elimination of its Bonus Points category.

A special Educating Yuma takeover of Arizona Edition explores why families use ESAs, what school choice looks like in Yuma and where questions of access and accountability remain.

In the final part of KAWC’s ESA series, supporters and critics find unexpected common ground on school choice and accountability — but sharply different ideas about what those principles should mean.

Universal ESAs have changed how Yuma families pay for private school, offering more predictable tuition support — but limited school options, capacity and uncertainty over the program’s future remain.

Arizona parents use Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for reasons ranging from disability services to homeschooling and religious education. They share what school choice looks like for their families.

Arizona ESAs carry a lower price tag than public school spending, but that doesn’t necessarily mean equivalent savings for the state. KAWC examines the math behind one of the program’s central claims.

Arizona’s ESA program has grown from 144 participants to nearly 103K. KAWC looks at how the program works, how spending's monitored and why it remains one of Arizona’s most contested policies.

In this week's Arizona Edition, Kimberly Clark is investing in Yuma, San Luis teens help seniors combat loneliness and more stories from the KAWC Newsroom.

Yuma Catholic High School welcomed nearly 600 students for its first day of classes Wednesday, marking record enrollment as students and staff shared their excitement for the new school year.