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Local Opinion: Arizona teachers can’t afford health care
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Local Opinion: Arizona teachers can’t afford health care

  • Cindy Gambone, Natalie Mast, Lydia Mendoza, Margaret Cheney, Tori Schroeder, Raina York Special to the Arizona Daily Star
  • Updated Apr 29, 2024

OPINION: "Not only are we overworked and stretched thin in the classroom, but we cannot afford health care for our own children and families. It is shameful and embarrassing," write a group of teachers in Tucson. 

UB Teacher Residency Program gets $3.5M grant to expand
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UB Teacher Residency Program gets $3.5M grant to expand

  • Janet Gramza
  • Updated Feb 26, 2026

The UB Teacher Residency Program was awarded one of 22 grants nationwide from the U.S. Department of Education’s Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program, Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, announced.

Heather Mace: New certification does disservice to teachers, students
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Heather Mace: New certification does disservice to teachers, students

  • Heather Mace Special to the Arizona Daily Star
  • Updated Oct 16, 2023

OPINION: "Instead of creating new certifications every few years, our goal should be to reduce the need for non-standard certificates in the first place. To do that, we must address the root causes of teacher shortages. Chronically low teacher pay, lack of public support, and constant battles with the Legislature for funding have impacted Arizona’s ability to attract fully certified teachers," writes Star contributor Heather Mace.

UB Teacher Residency Program is ‘future of teacher education’
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UB Teacher Residency Program is ‘future of teacher education’

  • Janet Gramza
  • Updated Feb 26, 2026
  • 5 min to read

“We have built a community of 70 residents, 60 mentors and more than 40 UB faculty,” program director Amanda Winkelsas said.

How will Tucson schools come back in the fall? TUSD says it needs money, masks, testing
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How will Tucson schools come back in the fall? TUSD says it needs money, masks, testing

  • Danyelle Khmara
  • Updated May 28, 2024

Tucson parents are telling TUSD they want choices when it comes to sending their kids back to school as teachers share concerns about returning without a coronavirus vaccine. 

TUSD forms plan to reopen schools as teachers, parents voice concerns about returning
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TUSD forms plan to reopen schools as teachers, parents voice concerns about returning

  • Danyelle Khmara
  • Updated Sep 21, 2020

Many Tucson parents are telling Tucson's largest school district they want choices when it comes to sending their kids back to campuses as educators share concerns about returning in the absence of a coronavirus vaccine. 

One-quarter of Arizona teaching positions are vacant, report finds
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One-quarter of Arizona teaching positions are vacant, report finds

  • Danyelle Khmara
  • Updated Feb 28, 2020

A quarter of teaching positions in Arizona are vacant, according to a survey released by the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association. 

Survey: More than 1,500 teaching jobs still vacant in Arizona
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Survey: More than 1,500 teaching jobs still vacant in Arizona

  • By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
  • Updated Jan 15, 2019

The survey was by the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association.

Exodus from Puerto Rico seen as possible solution to Arizona's teacher shortage
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Exodus from Puerto Rico seen as possible solution to Arizona's teacher shortage

  • Hank Stephenson
  • Updated Sep 5, 2018

An Arizona company is actively recruiting Puerto Ricans to teach in Arizona schools following a deadly hurricane. 

Long-rumored TUSD blacklist revealed; many on it for little reason
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Long-rumored TUSD blacklist revealed; many on it for little reason

  • By Hank Stephenson Arizona Daily Star
  • Updated Mar 6, 2018

The Tucson Unified School District's blacklist appears to have been kept under wraps for two decades.

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