Arizona-based sheriff group promotes members with ties to white nationalism
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association has formally embraced some of its more radical members by promoting them into leadership positions. The public-facing change comes at a time of growth for the organization as it seeks to further expand its influence and ideology across the U.S.
The uncounted: People of color are dying at much higher rates than what COVID data suggests
Unspecific, unknown deaths rose 10 times more among Black, Hispanic and Indigenous people than among white Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new analysis.
Community response helped reverse COVID’s devastating toll on Indigenous communities in Arizona
When COVID-19 first hit the U.S. in early 2020, urban centers like New York City became a focus of national attention. But as the disease spread throughout the U.S. later that spring, the Navajo Nation emerged as a disease hotspot, with case rates rising higher than anywhere else in the country. Newly compiled data reveals…
Muchas escuelas encuentran modos de resolver el problema del ausentismo sin suspensiones
Educadores en distritos que evitan las suspensiones relacionadas con asistencia dicen que el problema requiere un enfoque dualista: enfocándose en hacer de la escuela un lugar donde los estudiantes quieren estar mientras abordan al ausentismo como un problema a resolver.
In wake of pandemic, some districts take less-punitive approach to absenteeism
Though suspending students for attendance violations is widespread in Arizona, it is not universal—or necessary, according to school and district leaders who have found ways around it. They argue effective alternatives must make school a place students want to be, and treat absenteeism as a problem to solve, rather than a behavior to punish.
Derechos civiles en riesgo: Estudiantes afroamericanos y latinos son suspendidos más por faltar a clase
Cuando el castigo es el mismo que el delito: Suspendido por faltar a clase. El primer análisis de su tipo descubre el uso generalizado de suspensiones por infracciones de asistencia en Arizona.
Overrepresentation of Black, Hispanic students among those suspended for missing school could violate civil rights law
A first-of-its-kind analysis of education data shows that Black, Latino and Native American students are frequently overrepresented among those blocked from class for missing class — what some argue is evidence of a potential civil rights violation. White students, meanwhile, were largely underrepresented.
Suspending students for absences, tardies compounds learning loss
Suspending students for missing class, whether it’s because they showed up late, cut midday or were absent from school entirely, is a controversial tactic. At least 17 states forbid schools from suspending students for attendance problems at some level—if kids aren’t in class, they aren’t learning. Yet the practice is pervasive in Arizona, a first-of-its-kind…
Suspender a los estudiantes por ausencias, tardanzas agrava pérdida de aprendizaje
Cuando el castigo es el mismo que el delito: Suspendido por faltar a clase: El primer análisis de su tipo descubre el uso generalizado de suspensiones por infracciones de asistencia en Arizona.
Inside our analysis of Arizona’s attendance-related suspensions
For the past year, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and The Hechinger Report gathered and analyzed data for attendance-related suspensions among Arizona’s traditional district and charter networks that represent more than 60 percent of the state’s public school students. Here’s how we did the analysis.
Rule change opens new path for ‘constitutional sheriff’ group to train Arizona law enforcement
A rule change by Arizona’s top law enforcement-certifying agency removes a safeguard against ‘extremist’ training for peace officers by allowing sheriffs and police chiefs more autonomy in determining what qualifies as mandatory continuing education credit.
Pandemic accelerated Arizona’s years-long decline in childhood vaccination rates
The impact of missed preventative medical care during the pandemic is beginning to emerge in the form of drastic declines in childhood vaccination rates among Arizona youth, now at lower levels than at any point in the past decade. The plummeting rates follow a years-long decline in immunizations among Arizona students overall—one that has put…
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