Education

Members of the Maricopa High School Class of 2022 accepted their diplomas Thursday night during commencement ceremonies in Ram Stadium. Teachers, administrators, friends and family...

  Craig Emmerson was quite surprised at the news that greeted him Thursday morning. The managing member of Maricopa 240 LLC had negotiated the sale of...

New surveillance cameras installed below the stop-arms of school buses could lead to traffic citations. The Maricopa Unified School District’s Transportation Department installed the cameras...

  Maricopa Unified School District will come back to in-person classes Sept. 8. That is the day after Labor Day and two weeks after Gov. Doug...

Maricopa Unified School district ran into an impasse in its attempt to buy its preferred property for a second high school. “Tonight, we find ourselves...

With the acquisition of a 65-acre parcel for its second high school, Maricopa Unified School District now owns 15 properties. Five are undeveloped. In December, MUSD...

A board member of S3 BioTech, developer of the medical and innovation campus planned for Copper Sky, said the city will see a net...

Maricopa Unified School District board member Torri Anderson and her husband, owners of family property passed over for the site of a new high...

In what is becoming the norm, COVID-19 cases and masks were the primary focus of Wednesday’s Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board meeting. The agenda...

Cops didn’t file criminal charges after a teacher reportedly assaulted a student at a local school last month.  Maricopa Police Department launched an investigation Aug....

A decade ago, “Serial” spawned a cottage industry of provocative podcasts with some 300 million downloads. Today, it’s a competitive world with “The Joe...

After a year at its preparatory school, 2022 Maricopa High School graduate Charles Liermann is on his way to the United States Air Force...

During a Wednesday ceremony, Maricopa High School basketball players Andrew Hoxie and Triston Walters signed their national letters of intent to play at the...

The black-and-white view of Maricopa High School was taken in 1998 by Gray Photographs of Phoenix. The high school, which opened in 1955 with...

As the sun cast a warm glow on the faces of more than 620 Maricopa High School graduates, friends and family gathered to watch...

  Maricopa Unified School District announced today another case of COVID-19, the third since the beginning of the school year. A staff member at Saddleback Elementary...

There is good news for those concerned about the fate of nearly 1,000 pecan trees that populated the site of Maricopa’s new high school....

  The superintendent of Maricopa Unified School District said Wednesday that a return to in-person education Sept. 8 is “unrealistic.” Among the three benchmarks set by...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest installment in a series dealing with the Oatman massacre and the experiences of the family members who survived...

The Maricopa Unified School District took a step toward a new future when it broke ground on the city’s second high school on May...

Overwhelmed. It was a term used frequently at a Monday meeting hosted by Arizona Superintendent Kathy Hoffman with school leaders and Health Director Dr....

As the sun set on their high school years, the Maricopa High School Class of 2022 graduated Thursday night. Family and friends gathered to watch...

Two days after Maricopa Unified School District had to close down an elementary school, three new cases of COVID-19 were reported at the high...

Numbers of COVID-19 cases had been creeping up recently at Maricopa Wells Middle School. Today, the school district opted to close the school from...

The Maricopa Unified School District has shut down both of its middle schools for in-person learning just days after returning to the classroom. District students...

COVID-19 has caused the extended closure of two more schools in the Maricopa Unified School District. The reach of quarantine rather than the spread of...

Maricopa High School will close Thursday and Friday due to staff quarantines. Students will learn from home and return to campus on Monday for classes. A...

The protocols in place for the new school year in Maricopa Unified School District look much like those at the end of last year. There...

The City of Maricopa is working with public and charter schools to develop plans to alleviate traffic congestion and the blocking of roadways during...

EDITOR's NOTE: This post has been updated to reflect funeral arrangements.  Pat Brock, who documented the history of Maricopa in her books “Reflections of a...