Nearly 1,900 members of Agua Fria Union High School District’s Class of 2021 are expected to attend in-person graduation ceremonies Saturday, May 15, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale.
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Rotary Club of Goodyear PebbleCreek is accepting applications from Southwest Valley students interested in vying for one of five $1,000 scholarships it plans to award to graduating seniors this year.
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3/31/21
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Many nursing students might be a little nervous about giving their professor an injection. Not Sarah Idowu.
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3/31/21
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Dr. Tara Armstead was sworn in Thursday, March 25, as the newest governing board member of the A-rated Litchfield Elementary School District.
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3/25/21
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The Western Maricopa Education Center communications team recently announced its new district-centric podcast, “Generation Orange.”
West-MEC is a public career technical education …
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3/25/21
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New coronavirus guidance issued March 19 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allows schools to seat masked-up students 3 feet apart instead of 6 feet in classrooms, but that doesn’t mean local administrators are throwing caution to the wind, especially in middle and high schools.
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It’s been one year since the A-rated Litchfield Elementary School District pivoted to reinvent its time-tested approach to educational excellence in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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3/17/21
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A decade after opening in Goodyear, Franklin Pierce University is adding new health-sciences programs and expanding its existing doctoral program in physical therapy.
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3/6/21
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Agua Fria Union High School District officials planned to welcome students back to campus full time March 22, but quickly pivoted this week to comply with Gov. Doug Ducey’s March 3 executive order requiring schools to fully reopen March 15.
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Great Hearts Academies in Arizona is hosting a hiring fair in March with hopes of landing 240 new teachers.
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2/24/21
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Western Maricopa Education Center recently announced its new nursing services program for the fall.
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2/15/21
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Kindergartners through second-graders whose families chose the in-person learning model at the beginning of the 2020-21 academic year will return to their Litchfield Elementary School District classrooms beginning Monday, Feb. 22.
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Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC) is accepting nominations for the 22nd Annual Esperanza Latino Teacher Awards, presented by Cox Communications and SRP.
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2/9/21
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Two Southwest Valley residents were among 607 students who graduated recently from Park University in Missouri.
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2/4/21
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Scott Libby Elementary School’s parent teacher association has been awarded a $2,500 grant by the National PTA to continue its efforts to meet critical needs of students, families and teachers in their school community due to COVID-19.
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1/29/21
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Litchfield Elementary School District Educational Foundation has announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors.
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1/28/21
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The Association for Career and Technical Education named Susan Leon, an instructional specialist at Western Maricopa Education Center as its new and related services division vice …
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1/25/21
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Credit Union West has announced that the organization’s 2021 Scholarship Program is now accepting applications from high school seniors in Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma, Mohave, …
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1/25/21
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The search for Agua Fria Union High School District’s new superintendent is formally under way.
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1/25/21
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Now through Friday, Feb. 12, Arizona residents can fill out an application online to nominate their favorite K-5 school in the state (located within a 10-mile distance of a Bashas’ or Food City grocery store) for a chance to receive a learning garden for an elementary school at bashas.com or captainplanetfoundation.org/contest/bashas.
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1/25/21
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