Pima JTED will have a $250 million bond measure on the November ballot, but Nogales and Santa Cruz Valley school districts won't get a cut.

On their first day of class last month, 14 students stood up one by one and explained why they enrolled in the inaugural medical assistant certificate program at the Santa Cruz Center — and they told 14 different stories.

The NI spoke to six athletes from the NHS class of 1976 to hear what they remember most half a century late.

Officials cancelled elections for all but one school board across Santa Cruz County due to a lack of candidates, and five boards including SCVUSD and the community college district will have vacancies.

The second cohort of interns at the Santa Cruz County Justice Project made a trip up to Phoenix in early August to tour the Arizona Supreme Court and meet with Chief Justice Ann Timmer.

The Arizona Supreme Court on Aug. 18 affirmed a lower court's decision that the Protect Education Act did not have enough valid signatures, disqualifying the initiative from the November ballot.

Legendary baseball coach O.J. Favela, who recently left the program after 22 years, told the NUSD governing board that he was pushed out by his principal and that he felt he deserved more respect.

On both sides of a vigorous ESA debate, one sentiment abounds in Santa Cruz County: there are forces greater than us, at the state level and beyond, that are pitting us against each other.

O.J. Favela spent four years as a player for the Nogales Apaches and 22 as head coach. He's finding it tough to say goodbye.

Incumbent Maya Donnelly won the Democratic primary for County School Superintendent, according to the latest county results.

With about 800 votes yet to be counted, incumbent Maya Donnelly is leading in the Democratic primary for County School Superintendent.

After the Auditor General's Office set its sights on current and former county employees in the latest of several embezzlement-related lawsuits, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors authorized its lawyers to defend those employees — on the county's dime.

A ballot initiative aimed at putting restraints on ESAs — universal school vouchers — looks to be headed for the November ballot. Here's what it would do, and who opponents think of it.

A ballot initiative aimed at putting restraints on ESAs — universal school vouchers — looks to be headed for the November ballot. Here's what it would do, and who opponents think of it.

In 2016, Arizona leaders set an ambitious goal: By 2030, 70% of high school graduates would continue their education after graduation, whether at a university, community college or trade school.

When he returns to New Haven, Connecticut, for his sophomore year, Derek Campa is finally going to meet former Mexico president and Yale lecturer Ernesto Zedillo — more than a year after mentioning him in his application essay.

Graham Krewinghaus is the Nogales International's education reporter. His work is sponsored by grant funding from the Arizona Local News Foundation’s Arizona Community Collaborative Fund and Report for America. Contact him at graham.krewinghaus@nogalesinternational.com or (520) 415-1834.

The prohibitive $100,000 fee was an overreach of executive authority, a judge ruled.

Eight students from Santa Cruz County's 4-H programs took a trip to the nation's capital for the National 4-H Ignite Conference earlier this year, for the fourth year in a row.

U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva's office recognized students from across her district, including two from Rio Rico High School, for exceptional art submitted to a contest in May.

VFW Post 2066 named Master Sgt. Frederick Harvey its 2026 High School Teacher of the Year, honoring him for 28 years of service at Nogales High School.

Daniel Woodburn is the Rio Rico High School salutatorian. Let's meet him.

Joal Wilkinson is Rio Rico High School's valedictorian.

Athena Faith Inson Andres is Nogales High School's salutatorian. Let's meet her.

Renee Lopez is the Pierson High School valedictorian.