by Jim Small | May 14, 2018 | Education
Deconstructed Arizona upends school procurement laws in effort to cool cozy relationships with builders By Evan Wyloge and Jim Small, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and Mariana Dale, KJZZ Editor’s note: This article is a collaboration between...
by Evan Wyloge | May 14, 2018 | Education, Government
Emails obtained by AZCIR from four school districts show the depth of the relationships construction company executives have cultivated with school district administrators. For instance, builders and school officials took trips together to Mexico and French Polynesia....
by Jim Small | May 2, 2018 | Education, Government
GOP legislature sending more money to ‘freedom schools,’ despite existing surplus By Jim Small PHOENIX — In the face of teacher strikes that have forced the closure of hundreds of public schools and displaced more than 800,000 students in a fight over funding for K-12...
by Evan Wyloge | Feb 22, 2018 | 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, Elections
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 | Nov 3, 2017 | Education, Government
The Arizona State Board of Education violated federal student privacy law by disclosing the names of more than a thousand Arizona students, in some cases along with their birthdays, and their scores on the AzMERIT exams in response to a public records request filed by...
