Education

Central Arizona College plans to host a traditional graduation ceremony for all Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 eligible graduates in...

The coronavirus pandemic turned everyday routines upside down.We are all using the internet basically all day long.. Millions of U.S. families hunkered down together under...

An element of public safety in any community is the relationship between police and youth. Maricopa Police Department has provided officers to school campuses for...

As Gov. Doug Ducey was announcing Arizona’s return to school in the fall, the state’s leading youth athletic-regulating body was already distributing its plans...

Maricopa parents are facing a decision now with the announcement that Arizona public schools will open in July: send their kids back to school...

Maricopa Unified School District has $950,000 from the CARES Act, but it’s seeing the costs ahead as it plans an opening strategy in the...

School is almost back in session. Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that schools in Arizona will reopen in July. "Get ready for school," he told students...

Maricopa High School Class of 2020. The valedictorian was Freya Abraham, and the salutatorian was Haley Lemon.     .

May 30 from 9-11 a.m., A+ Charter Schools is giving away free donuts to spread kindness and appreciation for the Maricopa community. A+ Charter Schools...

Thanks to the generosity of one local family, the Maricopa Community Foundation has awarded $12,500 in scholarships for 2020 to seniors who live in...

Maricopa Unified School District wants to open its second high school in 2022. With just a little over two years to make that happen, the...

A Maricopa group of teen dancers choreographed by a high school student won an Arizona High School Musical Theatre award. A rousing portion of Maricopa...

Sequoia Pathway Academy Class of 2020. The valedictorian is Leah Peterson, and the salutatorian was Brielle Duff.

Freya Abraham, a graduate of Maricopa High School, has been named a U.S. Presidential Scholar, considered among the highest recognition in the country. She is...

After a year that culminated in so much disappointment for many Maricopa High School graduates, the Class of 2020 and its accomplishments were celebrated...

It was a tightly organized, drive-in graduation ceremony for Sequoia Pathway Academy graduates Wednesday. Seniors and their families arrived in a line of cars off...

Seniors at Maricopa High School have one last chance to get entered for free prizes, but the clock is ticking. The MHS 2020 Senior Giveaway...

As it decides how to start a school with $26 million, Maricopa Unified School District has been investigating concepts from around the country. In particular,...

Maricopa High School is sticking with its May 21 graduation date, but it will be very different than imagined. With COVID-19 causing the postponement of...

Two new principals have been named in Maricopa Unified School District. Deana McNamee of Winslow will take over Maricopa High School for the coming year,...

School is officially still in session, but Maricopa Unified School District is deciding how it will start next school year in the wake of...

Three Maricopa High School theater students and the backstage crew have been named finalists in the Arizona High School Musical Theatre Awards. The awards ceremony,...

Sworn in Monday as the newest member of the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board, Jim Jordan will jump right into business Wednesday as...

The first week we created it, the support of this community was infectious.With more than 600 graduating high school seniors living in Maricopa, the...

Initiating Operation Senior Night, the administration of Sequoia Pathway Academy, including secondary Principal Markchele Kamson and elementary Principal Taylor Stanton, spent Thursday night dashing...

Erin Richards, an education reporter for USA Today, published a Feb. 29 article about the lack of success realized in American K-12 education in...

High school seniors across the country saw their final year implode as COVID-19 stripped away many of the spring events that normally put a...

School lunches (and breakfast) have always been an important service at Maricopa Unified School District, but the closures caused by COVID-19 placed the Child...

  The newest member of the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board has been surrounded by teachers all his life. Jim Jordan’s parents were both teachers,...

“This is a crazy time, and I don't think any of us expected to ever be teaching like this.”The things that our kids are concerned...