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Five $1K scholarship awards open to seniors
Credit Union West has announced that the organization’s 2021 Scholarship Program is now accepting applications from high school seniors in Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma, Mohave, … more
Agua Fria Union High School District, based in Avondale, covers 96 square miles and serves more than 8,300 Southwest Valley students.
Agua Fria district begins accepting applications for superintendent
The search for Agua Fria Union High School District’s new superintendent is formally under way. more
Elementary students work on an Arizona campus garden in this undated photo.
2 elementary schools can win grant learning gardens
Now through Friday, Feb. 12, Arizona residents can fill out an application online to nominate their favorite K-5 school in the state (located within a 10-mile distance of a Bashas’ or Food City grocery store) for a chance to receive a learning garden for an elementary school at bashas.com or captainplanetfoundation.org/contest/bashas. more
Agua Fria Union High School District, based in Avondale, covers 96 square miles and serves more than 8,300 Southwest Valley students.
What do you want to see in a new superintendent? Agua Fria UHSD wants to know
Agua Fria Union High School District will hold a virtual town hall-style meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, to discuss the characteristics and traits desired in the district’s new … more
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John Scudder, Litchfield Elementary School District director of Title I Services, left, LESD Superintendent Jodi Gunning, Luis Galindo of United Parcel Service, Rotary Club of Goodyear PebbleCreek President Joan Smith, Corte Sierra Elementary Principal Tanya Rotteger, and Colleen Dellolio-Coons, Jason Farentbeil and Maritza Ramos of UPS were on hand for Rotary’s Chromebooks donation
Rotary Club of Goodyear PebbleCreek focuses support on Title I schools
The Rotary Club of Goodyear PebbleCreek values strong schools and strong communities. This thriving service club prioritizes partnerships with Avondale, Litchfield and Agua Fria school districts, with an emphasis on Title I schools where children from low-income families compose at least forty percent of enrollment. more
Agua Fria Union High School District’s STEMCon X will be different from past years due to COVID-19, but students will still vie for scholarships and other prizes during the virtual event.
Agua Fria UHSD’s STEMCon X goes virtual
Agua Fria Union High School District students who want to showcase their science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills while competing for scholarships up to $1,000 and other prizes, can sign up now for STEMCon X. more
Estrella Mountain Community College in Avondale is one of multiple community college participating in the Achieving a College Education program.
High school students can earn free college credits through ACE Program
High school sophomores in the Southwest Valley worried about going to college because of tight finances and other challenges are encouraged to apply for ACE, Estrella Mountain Community College’s Achieving a College Education program. more
Great Hearts Academies teachers throughout the state, including those in Goodyear, will receive bonus compensation in December.
Great Hearts to award $500,000-plus in teacher bonuses
Great Hearts Academies teachers across the state, including those at the nonprofit public charter school network’s campuses in Goodyear, will receive more than $500,000 in bonus compensation in December, thanks to year-long donor support and a virtual telethon benefitting its Teacher Excellence Fund. more
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Conference to combat bullying, depression, suicide
Students from across the Southwest Valley are invited to join more than 3,000 students from across the state for the first virtual Speak Up, Stand Up, Save a Life Conference in January to discuss lasting ways to combat bullying, depression and suicide at their schools. more
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Belen Soto Elementary School students usually visit a pumpkin patch and petting zoo in the fall, but the Goodyear school brought it to them Friday, Nov. 6. On Monday, they will transition back to distance learning after two weeks onsite full-time.
LESD returns all students to distance learning as cases continue rising
Just two weeks after transitioning preschool through fifth-grade students to full-time in-person learning, Litchfield Elementary School District is moving all students to full-time distance learning Monday, Nov. 9 until further notice due to rising COVID-19 cases in the Southwest Valley. more
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Dr. Dennis Runyan, Agua Fria Union High School District superintendent, talks to the Governing Board before its vote on his recommendation to return students to distance learning.
Agua Fria students return to distance learning Nov. 9
Agua Fria Union High School District students will return to full-time distance learning Monday, Nov. 9 and remain in that model through the end of the semester Dec. 18. more
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Best of the West Awards for 2020 were presented Oct. 22 during a dinner at Phoenix Raceway
Westmarc presents 2020 Best of the West awards
The Western Maricopa Coalition, Westmarc, presented its 2020 Best of the West awards during an Oct. 22 dinner at Phoenix Raceway. Desert Microsoft won for economic engine, Ottawa University for … more
Estrella Mountain Community College is one of three community colleges participating in an endowment challenge that resulted in $1.2 million in endowed scholarship funds for Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation.
Colleges Foundation earns scholarship grant
The Helios Education Foundation has awarded a grant to the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation to fulfill a dollar-for-dollar U.S. Department of Education Title V Endowment Match Challenge, resulting in $1.2 million in newly endowed scholarships funds. more
Agua Fria Union High School District, based in Avondale, covers 96 square miles and serves more than 8,300 Southwest Valley students.
Agua Fria district begins search for new superintendent
Agua Fria Union High School District is searching for a new superintendent to replace Dr. Dennis Runyan when he retires in June. more
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Litchfield Elementary School District’s Governing Board members from left, Alayne Weathersby, Danielle Clymer, Kimberly Moran, Dr. Tawnya Pfitzer and Melissa Zuidema.
LESD moving to five-day in-person learning Oct. 26
Litchfield Elementary School District students whose families signed up for in-person learning at the beginning of the school year will return to the classroom five days a week beginning Oct. 26. more
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Agua Fria Union High School District Food Services personnel were poised and ready for the district's hybrid transition.
Agua Fria UHSD board to hear hybrid learning update
Agua Fria Union High School District’s Governing Board will hear an update Wednesday, Oct. 14 on the district’s transition to its hybrid schedule, which kicked off Monday. more
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Arizona Educational Foundation announced its 2020 A+ School of Excellence Award winners this week.
Two LESD schools receive excellence award
Litchfield Elementary School District’s Dreaming Summit Elementary in Litchfield Park and Western Sky Middle School in Goodyear are among 44 schools across the state receiving the Arizona Educational Foundation’s A+ School of Excellence Award. more
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The new Estrella Mountain and Glendale community colleges Microsoft Datacenter Academy will be housed in EMCC’s Estrella Hall.
Colleges, Microsoft partner on IT programs
Estrella Mountain and Glendale community colleges are collaborating with Microsoft to develop and deploy a Microsoft Datacenter Academy to enhance the IT training programs at both schools. more
L. Thomas Heck Middle School and Barbara B. Robey Elementary School principals and students pause for photos with representatives of Desert Financial Credit Union and Laptops 4 Learning during the DFCU VIP Rally on Wednesday, Sept. 23. A total of 100 students from both schools received free laptops thanks to a DFCU fundraising drive that raised more than $60,000.
100 LESD students land laptops through local nonprofit, credit union effort
Siraj Cook-Davis, 12, and his 11-year-old sister, Brooklyn Pittman, couldn’t stop smiling as they crossed the digital divide Wednesday, Sept. 23. more
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Belen Soto Elementary School day custodian Lisa LaCasse shows off the ice machine and other items she received Sept. 9 in appreciation for her hard work.
Soto Storm helps school custodian chill
In honor of the pride and school spirit she instills across campus, the Belen Soto Elementary School community showered its beloved day custodian with a special gift of appreciation. Lisa LaCasse … more
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