Sisko J. Stargazer
Education Solutions ReporterSisko J. Stargazer is an award-winning education solutions reporter for KAWC in sunny Yuma, Arizona, where they also help with the KAWC Student Newsroom. Their 2025 coverage of Arizona school facilities funding earned a first-place Digital Writing award from the Public Media Journalists Association, and their reporting has been featured on NPR’s national newscast.
Sisko previously covered education for the Yuma Sun and has freelanced for U.S. News & World Report since 2022, contributing more than a dozen articles on online degree programs and career paths. They hold a B.A. in Film & Media Studies from ASU’s Barrett, The Honors College.
A jack-of-all-trades writer, Sisko is drawn to stories that make complicated systems more legible and encourage critical thought. When not on deadline, they can usually be found in a movie theater — or rewatching Star Trek, any and every Star Trek!
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The Flinn Scholarship is seeking Arizona students, including applicants from Yuma and La Paz counties. Applications for the $140,000+ award are due Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. -
In this week's show, Part 1 of a deep dive on the biosolids debate, it's dove hunting season in Yuma and more on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. -
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.
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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.
