COOLIDGE — A budget amendment that proposed to allocate a significant portion of career and technical education funding to pay teacher salaries and benefits submitted by a Pinal County school district left members of the Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology less than pleased at the…

MARICOPA — Seventeen-year-old Leah Peterson didn’t necessarily set out to become valedictorian of Sequoia Pathway Academy when she started high school, so it came as a shock when she found out she’d won out at number one in her class.

MARICOPA — Brielle Duff wasn’t sure she’d be able to become salutatorian at Sequoia Pathway Academy, but after four years of hard work she managed to secure the title.

MARICOPA — For many theater junkies, their love of theatrical performance and the arts began in high school. The same is true for 17-year-old Maricopa High School senior and salutatorian Haley Lemon.

MARICOPA — Freya Abraham didn’t know she’d be making history during her four-year career at Maricopa High School, but the high flier has exceeded even the highest of expectations set for her as she prepares to take her leave.

MARICOPA — As schools remain closed for the year, graduating seniors are preparing to take part in a number of alternative ceremonies in the coming weeks.

MARICOPA — There’s a new face on the Maricopa Unified School District board after Jim Jordan was sworn in Monday.

MARICOPA — An announcement from the Maricopa Unified School District shed new light on the plans for a second high school being built with State Facilities Board money. The school is scheduled to open in July 2022 and have the style of a career academy or small learning communities.

MARICOPA — A new board member was appointed to the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday following a previous board member’s resignation.

MARICOPA — Maricopa Unified School District deployed a new meals-on-wheels program last week to help deliver school breakfast and lunch to students living out in the Hidden Valley and Thunderbird Farms areas.

MARICOPA — The first Maricopa Unified School District board meeting with public access online only was held Wednesday night. Board members sat 6 feet apart on the dais of the boardroom and addressed the camera instead of their usual crowd.

MARICOPA — Amid mass uncertainties over the health implications of the COVID-19 outbreak, local schools are preparing for financial consequences as well.

MARICOPA — At the beginning of Wednesday night’s Maricopa Unified School District meeting, board member Joshua Judd unexpectedly resigned from his position. He was elected in 2016, started his term in January 2017, and would have ended his term in December of this year.

MARICOPA — A groundbreaking on Saturday saw the first shovels enter dirt on the lot just south of City Hall in preparation for a brand new library with all the bells and whistles.

MARICOPA — “Aladdin Jr.” is coming to Legacy Traditional School this week all the way from Agrabah, where students at the K-8 school will perform the Disney classic.

WASHINGTON — The team of students from Maricopa Wells Middle School in Washington this week for an engineering competition has a plan.

MARICOPA — Maricopa Wells Middle School is getting some new tech for the new semester, all thanks to a grant it received from the Ak-Chin Indian Community at the end of 2019.

MARICOPA — Maricopa Unified School District is tentatively moving forward on plans to build a basic high school using the funds given to it by the State Facilities Board, a feat that has never been done in the state at the high school level.

MARICOPA — At 5:30 on a Friday afternoon, most kids are trying not to think about school. And yet on Oct. 28 several teenagers made their way to Maricopa Public Library because they want to learn math — and because someone waiting for them in the building might just be the only person who co…

MARICOPA — Annie Watson knew she wanted to be a writer since she was a little girl. She dreamed of putting pen to paper, but didn’t know exactly where it would take her. She grew up and became a teacher, now teaching at Northern Arizona University, but her dream of writing never left her.

MARICOPA — An altercation occurred Oct. 30 at Maricopa High School involving students that culminated in an injury to a school employee.

MARICOPA — Maricopa Unified School District Board members announced the 2019 letter grades from the Arizona Board of Education for their schools at the bi-weekly board meeting Wednesday night.

MARICOPA — Central Arizona College has awarded their 2019 Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award to local resident Lucinda Boyd.

MARICOPA — Veterans of Maricopa were invited to attend a breakfast at the Maricopa Unified School District office Friday to celebrate their service and commemorate those who were lost.

MARICOPA — The Maricopa Unified School District has officially conceded defeat on Proposition 437, a bond measure that would have granted the district $68 million to build a new high school, among other improvements.

Several Pinal County municipalities and school districts have important items up for a vote in Tuesday night's election. Follow along as PinalCentral updates the results whenever they are made available through the Elections Department, beginning following the closing of the polls Tuesday ni…

MARICOPA — Fresh off the opening of another charter school campus in Maricopa, Sequoia Pathway Academy’s parent academy has announced a major expansion.

MARICOPA — After many delays, the students and faculty of Heritage Academy-Maricopa are in their new facilities — sort of.

STANFIELD -- The Stanfield Elementary School District No. 24 has a Governing Board vacancy.

MARICOPA — Just a couple weeks before the issue is set to be decided, residents were invited to share their views supporting or opposing a large bond issue proposed by the Maricopa Unified School District.

MARICOPA — School policies aim to keep kids in the classroom as much as possible, but when student behavior leaves them little choice, it takes some creativity to live up to that goal.

MARICOPA — Students from a Maricopa charter school organized a protest on Monday morning in solidarity with a teacher they say was unjustifiably fired.

MARICOPA — District officials hope that the implementation of a new state law will ease concerns from parents about the health care of their students.

MARICOPA — Are you a creative person of any age or type? The Maricopa Arts Council may be looking for you.