The Arizona Department of Education has received a $20 million grant to improve language and literacy skills of underserved children. The Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant, which will equal $4 million a year over five years, will target kids living in poverty, English learners, children with disabilities, Native American students, and those reading well...
Read MoreThe heat in the valley is still turned up, but it is technically Fall and that means it is time to plan your visit to a pumpkin patch. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, families are looking to get out and celebrate the turn of the season. If your family is on the hunt for...
Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued its first guidelines for celebrating Halloween amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC has listed a number of ways to celebrate the holiday and categorized them as low, moderate or high-risk activities. “High Risk” Halloween activities: Traditional trick-or-treating Crowded indoor costume parties Indoor haunted houses...
Read MoreFor families with food allergies, reading labels is a lifestyle but doctors are warning a change to labeling guidelines could put some people at risk of an allergic reaction. COVID-19 closed processing plants and affected farms, causing a strain on the food supply chain. In response, the Food and Drug Administration threw them a...
Read MoreThis week, APS launched their “Supply My Class” Teacher Awards sweepstake. APS will award $500 for school supplies to 300 Arizona K-12 public and charter school teachers. APS is a strong supporter of Arizona teachers and is making the effort to make sure that they have everything they need for their learning environments this...
Read MoreAn important warning to parents. A new “challenge” has surfaced on the popular app Tik Tok and it has had a devastating outcome. When a teen girl died near Oklahoma City in August, her family blamed the 15-year-old’s death on a Benadryl overdose according to a letter from her mother. The letter points the...
Read MoreSuperintendent Kathy Hoffman on Friday announced a new partnership with the Arizona Boys and Girls Club and YMCA that will give children a safe place for learning. The partnership is also in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Education and Gov. Doug Ducey’s office. Following the most recent executive order, schools are required to...
Read MorePharmacists in all 50 states are now allowed to give childhood vaccinations under a new directive aimed at preventing future outbreaks of measles and other preventable diseases. Alex Azar, the head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made the change amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which was declared a public health emergency....
Read MoreThe Arizona Department of Health Services dashboard, which updates every Thursday, showed that Maricopa County has met two of the three coronavirus benchmarks designed to guide schools on when it’s safe to start in-person learning this year. Arizona’s most populous county met the benchmarks for a two-week decline in cases. The report also shows...
Read MoreMany of the nation’s largest school districts plan to begin the fall semester online only. As schools consider reopening, children face a future in which online courses will probably be part of the curriculum. To make the best of this situation, here are some tips to help your child adapt to learning from home....
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