Education

  Maricopa High School’s new girls’ basketball coach will surprise you. Rashawn Calvert has taken over the reins of the Maricopa team this year, but this...

How did they do that? Butterfield Elementary’s successful strategy to rise from a C to an A school: *  Revamp the master schedule *  Use data results...

  For Desert Wind Middle School music teacher Roger Wagner II, classes are about more than sick beats and woodwinds. In addition to teaching kids how...

Maricopa High School Theatre Company launched "Peter Pan" Thursday night for its weekend production. Starring Taryn Story as Peter and Antonio Gonzales as Hook,...

Central Arizona College hosted its annual Veterans Day Commemoration Tuesday with Julia R. Gusse, a veteran and member of the Maricopa City Council, as...

One of the first curiosities Alexandra Stahl noticed on becoming the theater teacher at Maricopa High School this year is the affinity the MHS...

Science, technology, engineering, arts and math take the spotlight on National STEAM Day Nov. 8. The Maricopa Ak-Chin STEAM Foundation will feature STEAM-related, hands-on demonstrations...

Camino Montessori — which closed earlier this month — is hardly unique in the challenges it faced as a charter school in Arizona. Of the...

  Last night the Sequoia Pathway volleyball team experienced its first loss of the season against the Basis Peoria Scorpions in a hard-fought four-setter.  The...

  Ask kids to delve into the “weird and absurd,” and you never know what you’re going to get. In his second year of teaching at...

By Michelle Chance Deborah Kohls teaches second-grade English Language Learners (ELL) four hours every day at Maricopa Elementary School. MES has four Structured English Immersion (SEI)...

By Michelle Chance Destinee Cruz is a sophomore at Maricopa High School with a life like most teenagers. She has a large circle of friends...

  Next, InMaricopa looks into how the school's remaining assets, including a three-acre parcel of land currently listed for sale at $700,000, will be disposed...

  A Maricopa Wells Middle School student film was a winner at the Show Low Film Festival this weekend. “Kindness Equals Calm” was the Best Student...

For parents of Camino Montessori students, this fall break has been anything but a vacation. The local charter school closed on Friday.This is the...

Setting salaries for newly created positions has been difficult for Maricopa Unified School District. The district had posted a job opening for a “Coordinator of...

A vague threat posted anonymously Monday night, apparently on Facebook, caused a larger police presence on the Maricopa High School campus this morning. Maricopa Police...

  In an age dominated by digital platforms, Shianne Holman’s fourth-grade students learn hands-on, practical skills like public speaking, reading a paper map and writing...

  A longtime board member and one newcomer will fill two vacancies on the local school board, according to county documents. Incumbent Patti Coutré and Ben...

Students and community members will paint the town red in September. Maricopa High School will host its annual homecoming week Sept. 10-15. Senior Nancy Saldana,...

  School district leaders could join a lawsuit against the state Legislature. The Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board discussed the possibility during a meeting Aug....

  A discussion that began earlier this year, after a shooter entered the halls of a Florida school and killed 17 students and staff members,...

  There was very little leisure for Maricopa High School football players this summer.“We call it ‘one heartbeat;’ it’s kind of the analogy we use....

Students will get a peek at the democratic process during a candidate debate in August. The Primary Election Town Hall, an InMaricopa.com event, will host...

On what is forecast to be a record-breaking day of heat, students at Maricopa High School attended their second morning of classes without properly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnh4WiCSrU Students in the Maricopa Unified School District begin class Monday on a modified calendar and under new leadership. Months into her new job, new...

Breakfast treats and coffee, donated by Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, greeted Maricopa High School teachers as they returned to campus July 17. New Principal...

By Joycelyn Cabrera A coach has been confirmed for the newly introduced Maricopa High School swim team, and she’s an award-winner. Laura Logan, 49, plans to...

  Most children in Maricopa schools will return to class sooner than usual this year. The Maricopa Unified School District approved a calendar change that...

  It will still be July when students return to class in the Maricopa Unified School District, Legacy Traditional and Sequoia Pathway this year. In exchange...