Carmine DeBonis Jr. will be Pima County's next county administrator after a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors. DeBonis is currently one of three deputy administrators and has worked for the county for his entire professional career of over…
The first time Carmine DeBonis Jr. was a topic of news reporting in Tucson’s local newspapers, it was for digging dirt on that suspicious new organization — the Pima County Interfaith Council. DeBonis was an aide to then-Supervisor Ed Moore, a…
New Fall 2026 Resources: Strategic Data Use Rubric, Postsecondary Data Practice Guides, and Early Education Data Toolkits We’re not trying to improve K–12 metrics for the sake of those metrics—we’re trying to improve them to help students get to the…
A group of New Mexico educators gathered in Albuquerque this week to press state leaders for changes they say are badly needed to help students land jobs after graduation, from more school counselors to a workforce data system that actually…
From running tabletop exercises, to citing Civil War-era laws protecting voters, state election officials are on guard against threats; and not just from abroad. What state officials are doing to protect the midterms from federal government interference. Larry Schwartztol, faculty…
As a Texan, I know exactly what's at stake in this year's race for governor. My brother is one of the thousands of students who finally has access to a Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA), but Gina Hinojosa wants to…
A late ad push is targeting Florida Sen. Ashley Moody over her record on releasing Jeffrey Epstein’s files, The New York Times reported on Thursday. In the ad, Marina Lacerda, 38, says she met Epstein at 13 and asks Moody, a Republican,…
The group says it has enough support to… Eleven Minnesota school districts support an initiative to keep trans-identifying males out of girls’ sports, according to Make It Fair Minnesota. The group says it has enough support to put a proposed…
If you want to understand why modern society feels entirely unequipped to handle long-term systemic threats — from climate change to economic instability — you don’t need to look at Washington’s current gridlock. You can look at a 336-mile concrete ditch cutting…
With the 2026 midterm elections approaching on November 3, Dr. Gregory Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences, says the outcome will shape not only Washington but statehouses nationwide. “The stakes of this midterm are…
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