by Jim Small | Apr 20, 2018 | Education, Education
Arizona teachers plan to walk out of their classrooms April 26 to protest low salaries and nearly $1 billion cut from K-12 funding in the wake of the Great Recession that hasn’t yet been replaced. But as state policy makers weigh their options in response to the...
by Evan Wyloge | Feb 22, 2018 | Education, Education
Attorney General asks court to halt Scottsdale school construction over procurement violations By Evan Wyloge, AZCIR, and Mariana Dale, KJZZ News | Feb. 22, 2018 The Arizona Attorney General’s office filed a complaint Thursday against Scottsdale Unified School...
by Evan Wyloge | Dec 20, 2017 | Education, Education, Elections, Uncategorized
Building Relationships A small group of builders bankroll bond campaigns and dominate K-12 construction contracts By Evan Wyloge and Carrie Jung Editor’s note: This article is a collaboration between Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and KJZZ. It is...
by Jim Small | Oct 26, 2017 | Education, Education, Government Transparency, Uncategorized
Arizona wrongly distributed $62 million in federal aid for poor students over 4 years By Jim Small and Evan Wyloge | Oct. 26, 2017 The Arizona Department of Education was alerted in March 2015 that it was improperly distributing federal funds intended to help...
by Evan Wyloge | Oct 16, 2017 | Education, Education
Seventy-three schools are appealing the letter grades they’ve been given by state school officials, citing a variety of reasons that their grade should be improved. For about two-thirds of those appealing, school officials say either that the Arizona Department of...
by Evan Wyloge | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog, Education, Education, Government Transparency
Arizona Department of Education forcibly removes reporter asking to inspect records Evan Wyloge and Jim Small | Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Education physically removed an AZCIR reporter out of its Capitol Mall...
