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COVID-19 is costing the Tempe Union and Kyrene school districts millions of dollars.
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Gov. Doug Ducey last week defended indoor political rallies with thousands of people without masks even as he admitted the only way Arizona will stop the upward trend of infections is if people mask up and stay home. But now he has toughened the policy on other places where people gather.
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Attorney General Mark Brnovich is going to begin enforcing Arizona’s civil rights laws against private employers who discriminate based on someone’s sexual orientation.
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For four hours June 24, the Tempe Union Governing Board heard adult speaker after adult speaker discuss the role of school resource officers in advance of a vote – possibly today, July 1 – on a move that would eliminate those positions at four campuses, including Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista.
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Students at Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista high schools – as well as other Tempe Union campuses – will be able to go to class five days a week after the district made a surprise announcement Monday and added a third option for the new school year.
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Now that Ahwatukee residents and the rest of their Phoenix neighbors must wear a facemask in a variety of public gatherings, city officials hope they won’t be calling 911 to rat out maskless people.
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Now that Ahwatukee residents and the rest of their Phoenix neighbors must wear a facemask in a variety of public gatherings, city officials hope they won’t be calling 911 to rat out maskless people.
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Gila River Hotels & Casinos has shut down for two weeks to review safety standards and disinfect properties after the COVID-19 related death last week of a security employee.
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A new ruling last week by the U.S. Supreme Court on gay rights is imposing new restrictions on Arizona employers that neither the Legislature nor state courts were willing to do.
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A new lawsuit by the state NAACP claims private prisons used by the state violate constitutional provisions including a prohibition against slavery.
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The state’s top health official says the key to slowing the spread of COVID-19 could be finding a way to reach the people who believe they’re the least likely to get infected or suffer ill effects.
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As more Valley school districts begin rolling out reopening plans in the shadow of a surge in COVID-19 cases in Arizona, Tempe Union Superintendent Dr. Kevin Mendivil last week unveiled a plan that would put students in classrooms only once a week – and then without most of their classmates.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators broke into applause last week as they gave overwhelming approval to a bill allocating up to $1.9 billion a year for public lands acquisition and national park maintenance fund, a bill advocates said is “55 years overdue.”
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As the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board prepares for a study session tonight on two members’ controversial request to not fund school resource officers on four campuses – including Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe – they’ve found an unlikely ally.
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The letters sent to Tempe Union High School officials demanding the reallocation of $450,000 earmarked for school resource officers at four high schools – including Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe – weren’t just related to the nationwide protests over police departments’ treatment of people…
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Kyrene School District may have jumped to the head of the class in dealing with the tricky issue of reopening campuses.
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