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Arizona Daily Star · 5h

Local opinion: TUSD Family Engagement Team serves our community

To readers who feel the goals of private and public education are mutually exclusive — they aren’t. Our values are more closely entwined than perhaps you realize.
KGUN 9 · 2d

UPDATE: Man who allegedly attacked student at Eastside bus stop charged with aggravated assault of minor

A Gridley Middle School student was allegedly assaulted by a man at a bus stop at East Broadway Boulevard and South Harrison Road Wednesday after dismissal, according to TUSD.
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Oct 31, 2024

Arizona students just pressured the Tucson school district to pass an aggressive climate resolution

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in Arizona just passed a bold climate action plan—and the effort was spearheaded by student activists. In a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, the TUSD board ...
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Jan 8, 2025

TUSD responds after teacher arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A man who works as a teacher in Tucson Unified School District is facing multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. A probable cause statement shows a download of ...
Icon for www.tucsonweekly.comTucson Weekly · Nov 2, 2021

Former Principal Ed Arriaga Is Demanding Tax Dollars Because Someone Leaked TUSD's Sex-Harassment Settlements On His Behalf.

BROKE AND NO longer a Tucson Unified School District bigshot, Edward R. Arriaga is demanding $150,000 from taxpayers because confidential information about sexual harassment complaints against him ...
Arizona Daily Star · 1h

Palo Verde High School coach Mentz has seen it all | Greg Hansen

Jim Mentz, who is retiring from the Palo Verde High faculty, has been the Titans girls soccer coach for 37 years and is in his 35th year as the baseball
Icon for www.kvoa.comKVOA 4 · 17d

Tom Horne backs removal of DEI policies from Tucson schools

I put a stop to it in the Tucson Unified School District," Horne said. Horne further stated that DEI does nothing to encourage creativity. The deadline for schools to remove DEI programs is next ...
Icon for www.tucsonweekly.comTucson Weekly · Jul 12, 2017

TUSD hands out a magazine that raises questions about Christian propaganda.

Principal Bartolazzi told the Tucson Weekly that a staff member had ... supporters of church-state separation. Gene Benton, a TUSD assistant superintendent, said that despite its relationship ...
Icon for www.kgun9.comKGUN 9 · 18d

TUSD investigating break-ins at Midtown elementary school

Tucson Police and TUSD's School Safety are investigating two break-ins that have taken place at John B. Wright Elementary School, in midtown. According to a TUSD spokesperson, School Safety is ...
Icon for wildcat.arizona.eduArizona Daily Wildcat · Nov 4, 2024

Student-led Climate Resolution marks historic win in Tucson Unified School District

The Tucson Unified School District has become the first school district in the nation to pass a fully comprehensive student-crafted Climate Action Resolution. This resolution passed with a 3-to ...
Icon for www.courthousenews.comCourthouse News Service · Dec 28, 2017

Judge Shuts Down Arizona’s Ban on Ethnic Studies Program

Arizona can no longer enforce a law aimed at shutting down Tucson Unified School District’s defunct Mexican-American Studies program, shuttered in 2012 after the state threatened to cut district funding, a judge ordered Wednesday. TUCSON, Ariz.