What started as a dumb school prank has resulted in serious consequences for some students in the east valley. They were involved in a cafeteria food fight.
What started as a dumb school prank has resulted in serious consequences for some students in the east valley. They were involved in a cafeteria food fight.
This week at the Phoenix Convention Center, 1,600 students are showing off science fair projects that are anything but boring.
When you think science fair, you probably imagine rows and rows of poster boards like you saw in grade school. But this week at the Phoenix Convention Center, 1,600 students are showing off projects that are anything but boring.
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They're barely old enough to see over the seats but that doesn't stop these kids from targeting a bus aid with profanity-laced insults, FOX 29's Bruce Gordon reports.
They're barely old enough to see over the seats but that doesn't stop these kids from targeting a bus aid with profanity-laced insults, FOX 29's Bruce Gordon reports.
Maricopa residents gave Ak-Chin Indian Community officials a standing ovation when it was announced the tribe is donating $2.6 million to Maricopa's financially struggling school district.
Maricopa residents gave Ak-Chin Indian Community officials a standing ovation when it was announced the tribe is donating $2.6 million to Maricopa's financially struggling school district.
Police say an Arizona State University student could be cited for underage drinking after he passed out and was left in a wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note.
Police say an Arizona State University student could be cited for underage drinking after he passed out and was left in a wheelchair in a hospital lobby with a Post-it note with his name and number.
The Arizona House of Representatives has advanced a measure that would require some high school students to learn about personal finance before graduating.
The Arizona House of Representatives has advanced a measure that would require some high school students to learn about personal finance before graduating.
Chicago Public Schools are stepping away from a doomsday budget plan that would have put as many as 35 students in one classroom.
Schools CEO Ron Huberman said the district is getting more money from the state, so he's able to pull back a little bit from the worst-case scenario.
CPS still faces a shortfall of $300 million.
Under the new plan, full-day preschool is preserved, and kindergarten through eighth grade class sizes will not be changed. In Chicago public high schools, class sizes will go up from 31 students on average to 33.
In the district's regional magnet and gifted programs, there will be teacher layoffs that will affect the quality of what have been elite programs.
There will still be 1,200 teacher layoffs for the coming school year, and that means the fight for the rest of the summer is going to be a battle over a 4 percent pay raise for Chicago teachers.
Huberman said if the CTU and its new leadership agreed to forego the raise, it would save the district $135 million and would reduce those planned layoffs.
FOX Chicago has left messages for new CTU President Karen Lewis to see how the union feels about the developments.
CPS’s budget problems are linked to the state's budget mess, so it may only going to get worse next year.
