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🏛️ The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to draft a 120-day data center moratorium, and 4-1 to revise transparency and NDA policies first written nearly a year ago in response to the Project Blue land sale. Read more.
đź“š Arizona teachers leave their jobs at twice the national rate, and a new Arizona Luminaria/Channel 13 News series digs into what’s keeping Southern Arizona educators in the classroom — starting with a teacher residency program that pairs students with a mentor, offers a stipend for two years and keeps 95% of its graduates teaching.
🚨 Arizona Luminaria is now running short updates on immigration enforcement and its impact on Southern Arizona communities on our homepage, starting with news that the Tucson-based Florence Project will continue to represent unaccompanied migrant children as long as they can afford to after the federal contract funding their legal services lapsed.
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Pima County moves toward data center moratorium, tighter transparency
The Pima County board of supervisors is asking its staff to draft policies intended to provide more transparency and accountability over large development projects in the county, like data centers. […]
Keeping teachers in the classroom: Examining Southern Arizona solutions to a nationwide crisis
One local teacher dumpster dives for classroom supplies. Another left his job of more than two decades to enter the classroom, inspired by his family of educators and his children. […]
Mantener a maestros en aulas: analizando soluciones en el sur de Arizona ante crisis nacional
Una maestra local busca materiales para su salón de clases en los contenedores de basura. Otro dejó su trabajo de más de dos décadas para entrar al salón de clases, […]
“The human work of teaching”: Arizona’s Teacher Residency Program a solution to keeping educators in the profession
FLAGSTAFF — When it became clear last spring Ruben Rosthenhausler would lose his job as manager of the Berger Performing Arts Center, he told himself to remain open to all […]
Covering the impact of immigration enforcement on Southern Arizona communitiesÂ
Karla Toledo was having what she thought was a regular Monday morning at home when she was arrested by immigration agents. Yesenia was driving home from selling empanadas and arepas […]
Florence Project will continue to represent unaccompanied migrant children despite canceled federal contractÂ
The federal government’s contract to pay for legal services for unaccompanied minors lapsed last week, leaving tens of thousands of immigrant children at risk of moving through the immigration system […]
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The lightning-caused Finger Ridge Fire near Finger Rock Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains grew to 67 acres and monsoon rains had it down to smoldering and mostly contained as of Tuesday. See Forest Service updates on Facebook.
Learn about recent policy shifts affecting Arizona students with disabilities during a virtual panel from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, hosted by the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. The session will cover updates to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program and upcoming changes to the state’s ABA system, followed by audience Q&A. Register.
Reid Park Zoo is inviting kids to get delightfully filthy on Saturday, Aug. 15, when its World Elephant Day celebration turns the Event Garden into a mud pit so children can learn how elephants use the goo as sunscreen — bring clothes ready for a hosing-off. The event, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., spotlights the zoo’s conservation work, including a Tanzania program that has protected more than 1 million acres of elephant habitat.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center will host preservation anthropologist Aaron M. Wright for a virtual talk titled “Indigenous Trail Networks and the Engineering of Cultural Landscapes of the Sonoran Desert” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, as part of its monthly “Third Thursday Food for Thought” series. Wright, of the Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest, will draw on recent fieldwork in Southern Arizona to argue that ancestral O’odham and Yuman trail networks were deliberately planned and maintained infrastructure. Register.
ADEQ has proposed closing the leaking underground storage tank case at Dolly Madison, a strip mall in South Tucson, according to a public notice. State regulators said the site’s groundwater contamination exceeds Arizona Aquifer Water Quality Standards but determined the case meets closure requirements because there is no exposure risk to public health and the remaining contamination is declining. A public comment period is open through Aug. 22.
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