Many Arizona public school students start their summer vacation this week, but it is a bittersweet time for school districts facing massive budget shortfalls and a lot of uncertainty about the level of state funding they will receive next school year.

When Proposition 100 was on the ballot three years ago, one of the biggest selling points made by supporters was that two thirds of the money would go to education and prevent deeper cuts to schools.

A new poll shows strong support among Latinos for sex education, including birth control.

Three years ago, Arizona voters approved Proposition 100, which raised the state sales tax by a penny on the dollar for three years.

The parents of students in poorly performing public schools are facing a deadline this week to get state help to put their kids in new schools.

Police in Prescott have arrested an 18-year-old Embry Riddle University student for setting off an explosion in the college parking lot in Prescott.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio now says he plans to expand his volunteer, armed school posse, as well as the controversial paintball training he is conducting at an abandoned Phoenix-area school.

Arizona State University has opened an outreach center in Santa Monica, Calif. to attract residents of that state to Arizona.

Arizona already has 53 special license plates, but it may be getting another.

Students at Arizona’s three public universities would pay three to five percent more in tuition next year, under requests made by the schools.