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Mingus teacher trains for top spot

In November, the Mingus Union High School District Superintendent Penny Hargrove retired after an internal investigation by the governing board. Since then, Mingus Principal...

CVUSD considers Bible class

At a meeting of the Camp Verde Unified School District Governing Board on Dec. 11, 2018, Tony Isola, a former educator, stood up during...

CVUSD board votes 2-2 to deny teacher raises

At the meeting of the Camp Verde Unified School District Governing Board on Feb. 12, a vote to raise teacher and staff salaries by...

Mingus aims to fix testing issues

Last spring, AZ Merit testing at Mingus Union High School was a fiasco, according to school leaders. A technological glitch led to the failure...

Dr. Daniel Bright students collaborate on mural

Just off from the entrance doors to Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School, an unfinished mural covers the wall of a small hallway, waiting to...

School district consolidation bill advances in state senate

On Jan. 22, the Education Committee of the Arizona State Senate held its first hearings on Senate Bill 1073. Proposed by Education Committee Chair...

Board of Education grades boosted after appeals

In October, the Arizona Department of Education released 2017-2018 school year letter grades for every school in the state based on a combination of...

Mingus’ student ID badges draw ire of ACLU

The Arizona chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to Mingus Union High School alleging that the school’s student ID...

Genie Gee and Lynn Leonard take over Mingus superintendent duties

At a meeting on Dec. 12, the Mingus Union High School District Governing Board unanimously approved contract addendums for Mingus Union High School Principal...

Camp Verde school board keeps Howe on as administrator-in-charge

In February, the Camp Verde Unified School District Governing Board officially decided to allow Superintendent Dennis Goodwin to finish his contract on home assignment....

Mingus releases details of investigations into former Superintendent Penny Hargrove

On Nov. 10, Penny Hargrove, Ph.D., resigned as Mingus Union High School District superintendent. The MUHSD board had suspended Hargrove two weeks earlier pending...

Hargrove resigns from MUHS, Gee takes over as acting superintendent

After a 10-day suspension imposed by the Mingus Union High School District governing board on Oct. 25, pending an investigation into MUHSD Superintendent Penny...

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