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Camp Verde 2025 Year in Review

January ■ Judy McBride and Joe Serreyn presented Rimrock Ranch: From Dudes to Mobsters as part of the Sedona Heritage Museum’s Sedona Stories program on...

Valley Academy for Career and Technology Education student learns to teach

On the road to being an educator, Melanie Rodriguez has learned a lot about grabbing a classroom of elementary students’ attention. A student at Mingus...

MUHSD OKs merit-based pay structure

The Mingus Union High School District Governing Board voted on Thursday, Dec. 11, to approve a structure for merit-based pay system as a regulation...

Verde Valley starts county phonics initiative

Beginning this academic semester, Yavapai County became the first in the state to start a new phonics-based teaching initiative — with financial support from...

Yavapai College OKs plan to hike tuition 3%

The Yavapai College Governing Board voted 4-1 on Nov. 19 to accept a proposal that would increase tuition for the upcoming year. The board...

ATORT debuts dance drama Dec. 6 at MUHS

It had been about nine years since Mingus Union High School’s A Troupe of Ridiculous Thespians’ last dance show, so Director James Ball thought...

Verde Valley Schools react to letter grades

Schools and districts across the state received their letter grades for the 2024-25 school year at the end of October and beginning of November....

MUHSD nixes vote on salary bonus policy

After 13 members of the public spoke against a policy that would have correlated student performances and staff salary increases in the Mingus Union...

State announces letter grades

State-wide school letter grades were announced in the last week of October, for the 2024-2025 academic year. Cottonwood Both the Cottonwood school districts, Cottonwood-Oak Creek District...

College board won’t meet in person, nor visit its own campuses

Despite numerous technical difficulties throughout the Yavapai College Governing Board’s Oct. 28 meeting that lasted nearly three hours, the board voted against returning to...

3 school overrides pass; voters also approved Verde Valley Fire District’s $15.5M bond

Voters in the the Mingus Union High School District, Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District and Clarkdale-Jerome School District all approved budget overrides in the Tuesday,...

Yavapai College board told no campus visits needed

Yavapai College Governing Board members don’t have to visit all campuses in person to comply with statute, the community college’s attorney Lynne Adams said...

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