Evidence of the failure of Arizona's child welfare system comes from multiple sources The agency is overwhelmed, but lawmakers are unlikely to approve more funding without better oversight Gov. Doug ...

The status quo is usually no cause for celebration. But lawmakers' extension of Proposition 301 is one big exception. Some may shrug their shoulders. For them, continuing the education tax may have ...

It’s called the Invest in Education Act, a call for Arizonans to invest more money in the schools. Just not their own. Money, that is. Instead, the Arizona Education Association and others are hoping ...

He writes in cursive, but Gov. Doug Ducey doesn't want a stand-alone law to require it for Arizona's schoolkids. In his first veto of the legislative session, the Republican governor penciled out ...

Arizona’s schools — our students and teachers — need additional investment right now, and they need a multiyear funding commitment from the state. That is why I, after careful consideration of all the ...

The state budget negotiated behind closed doors hit a snag over education funding The budget is a mix of the good, the bad and the timid Arizona needs to move beyond recession-era thinking It’s ...

Suddenly, Gov. Doug Ducey has found the money for a 9 percent pay raise for Arizona's teachers, with the promise of another 5 percent in each of the two following years. Suddenly, the governor who has ...

Another of Gov. Doug Ducey's appointees has come under professional scrutiny amid allegations of questionable personnel practices, with Arizona Parks Director Sue Black facing a state investigation ...

The following is an imagined announcement. The fellow supposedly speaking has not been consulted about this. George Will / Washington Post I am Doug Ducey, a former two-term governor of Arizona, now a ...

PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is defending controversial legislation he sought — and is expected to sign — that would allow more people without formal teacher training to lead a public school classroom.

PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey is offering the average Arizona teacher a $900-a-year raise — by 2022. The governor Friday unveiled his plan to put $114 million in new funds into K-12 education for the ...