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Arizona Sonoran News

Desert View High School teacher Samuel Mendivil introduces his students to a new topic.

Sunnyside teachers rack up hundreds of PTO hours

Refugio Del Cid, Reporter April 29, 2024

Sunnyside Unified School District has 200 teachers who have each accrued more than 400 hours of accumulated paid time off and district officials are trying to come up with a plan to balance the books.  That...

James Bourland recently switched from teaching journalism to teaching photography and coding. (Photo by Nicholas Trujillo).

A teacher with a ‘Grande’ heart

December 17, 2019

By Nicholas Trujillo/Arizona Sonora News Listen to the audio version of this story above. In an empty classroom at Tucson’s largest public high school a teacher can’t quite reach the top...

Daniel Johnson helps a student at Hollinger K-8 in Tucson, AZ. (Photo by: Bria Fonteno / Arizona Sonora News)

Passion keeps teachers in the classroom

Bria Fonteno October 3, 2018

As Arizona schools struggle with fixing problems in the education system, having committed and passionate teachers may be the start to a solution. “I teach because I love what I do. I still remember...

Erik Kolsrud/Arizona Sonora News

The Last Legislative Roundup: Rules of debate, four-year terms, ticket surcharges

Erik Kolsrud April 28, 2018

PHOENIX --This week was dominated by Thursday's teacher walkout, the dismissal of a lawsuit over college tuition increases as well as the narrow special election for Congressional District Eight. This...

The Arizona Poetry Center pays for poet's writings, including Shakespeare, to run above the Sunlink stops for students to see while they wait.

English curricula begin to steer away from Shakespeare

Brit Reid April 11, 2018

To read or not to read? That is the question that English teachers are asking when it comes to including the work of William Shakespeare in their classes While Shakespeare remains the most produced...

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