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TEMPE, AZ - The Kyrene School District has been chosen by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to host a Technology Site Visitation on February 20-22, 2008. Kyrene is one of three districts, nationwide, to be afforded this honor, and is the first district ever to be so recognized in the Southwest...(read more)
Story: Kyrene Chosen to Showcase Teaching with Technology 

GILBERT, AZ – Students in physics classes at Highland High School in Gilbert are studying mass and learning about force and other physics concepts through an experiment with pasta...(read more)
Story: Students create, test spaghetti structures 

TUCSON, AZ -  Children at Borton Primary Magnet School don't have far to go for an outdoor field trip. Behind a chain link fence next to their school campus at 700 E. 22nd St., they have a 2 ½-acre natural desert garden to explore...(read more)
Story: Under the Desert Sky

PEORIA, AZ – Frontier eighth-grade social studies teacher Holly Urbancic recently received the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) District Three Citizen Education Teacher of the Year Award...(read more)
Story: Frontier Social Studies Teacher Wins District VFW Honor