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A Cholla High School student puts on a virtual reality headset on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

Cholla High School students experience Native art through virtual reality

Students, through the use of virtual reality sets, listened to three different stories from Navajo artists.
People cycling, wrenching, playing, and relaxing in an illustration donated to the BICAS Art Auction. BICAS will auction the donated items on December 7th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the BICAS shop.

How BICAS bridges bicycles, art and community.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The story of Ittai Sopher, a former Arizona Spotlight producer, who became a "Jeopardy" champion; Marquez Price on the value of doing a digital detox; and "Stories that Soar!" features young kids thinking about big emotions.
A syringe draws fluid from a vial.

Arizona sees record high vaccine exemptions among kindergarteners

Recent CDC data shows that vaccine exemptions for Arizona kindergarteners is up over last year, and the highest it’s been in at least 15.
The Student Union Memorial Center at the University of Arizona.

UA "stabilizes" financial reserves but faces pressure to accelerate growth and faculty support

UA stabilizes finances one year since the announcement of its fiscal issues, but low reserves and low faculty morale persist under new leadership.
Paula at age 12. She hadn’t been able to start school until age 8, after the war ended.

Remembering Paula Bronstein, a survivor of the Holocaust.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Beth Colburn Orozco shares the story of her search for the daughter she never knew.
An electric school bus parked outside of John B. Wright Elementary School on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. The Tucson Unified School District received $4 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to retire 10 diesel school buses, with ten electric school buses as an effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

TUSD gets $4 million EPA grant to replace diesel buses with electric fleet

Ten diesel buses are being replaced with electric models, reducing emissions and cutting costs.
The new inductees into The National Toy Hall of Fame include My Little Pony, the card game Phase 10, and Transformers.

My Little Pony, Transformers, Phase 10 join the National Toy Hall of Fame

All three of this year's inductees were created in the 1980s.
Scientists used a gumball machine filled with toys to test how toddlers learned when they thought something was impossible or just improbable.

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Even toddlers can tell an event that is improbable from one that appears impossible.
Two "Vote Here" signs sit outside the Armory Park Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in downtown Tucson.

How some of Pima County’s youngest voters feel about casting their ballots

Arizona’s Gen Z voters set to shape the 2024 election.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with administrators and educators at Tucson Unified's TUSD’s Roskruge Bilingual K-8 Magnet school on Oct. 31, 2024.

U.S. Education Secretary praises Tucson's bilingual education

Calls is the best he has ever seen.
Arizona Youth Climate Coalition members at the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board meeting in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. Local students showed support for the passage of the TUSD Climate Resolution Act, which was researched, written and lobbied by students aged 13-20.

Tucson Unified School District approves climate action plan led by students, targets net-zero by 2040

New policy prioritizes clean energy, sustainable practices and a comprehensive climate education.
Esme Canelos stars as Tina and Owen Green stars as Basil in a new Ten-Minute Drama called "The Jack-O-Lantern" by Alejandro Canelos. "The Jack-O-Latern" wreaks havoc on two suburban young adults.

The 16th Annual Haunted Halloween Arizona Spotlight!

Featuring: The stars of Live Theatre Workshop's "Misery"; Broadway designer David Korins' creations from "Beetlejuice"; a ghost story from "Stories That Soar!"; and the supernatural invades suburbia in the Ten-Minute Drama "The Jack-O-Lantern".
The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted some peoples ability to get vaccinations for other infectious diseases, including pertussis.

Worst U.S. whooping cough outbreak in a decade has infected thousands

Experts are concerned that the outbreak could worsen in the fall and winter months.
The Arizona Department of Education Building in Phoenix, Ariz.

Department of Education launches online teacher certification tool

Applications can now be completed entirely online.

Scholarships A-Z

Scholarships A-Z provides resources for undocumented college students.
Newspaper classified listings.

Arizona unemployment remained historically low in August

The state's first-ever streak of sub-3.5% unemployment continued through the end of the summer.

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