Education

July 22, 2010

  • Expect More Arizona  |   Video
    • Expect More Arizona is a partnership of organizations and individuals that advocates for education in our state. A recent poll by the group finds education remains a major priority with Arizonans. Paul Luna, chairman of Expect More Arizona, talks about the poll.
      Web site: Expect More Arizona

June 24, 2010

  • Raising a Reader Initiative  |   Video
    • The Raising a Reader Initiative is a free literacy program being offered by Southwest Human Development at apartment communities in the valley to help children 5 years old and younger develop the skills they need to be successful readers.

May 13, 2010

  • Ethnic Studies Law  |   Video
    • Governor Brewer has signed HB 2281 which targets an ethnic studies program in a Tucson school district. Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne and House Assistant Minority Leader Kyrsten Sinema discuss the legislation.

February 25, 2010

  • Raising a Reader Initiative  |   Video
    • The Raising a Reader Initiative is a free literacy program being offered by Southwest Human Development at apartment communities in the valley to help children 5 years old and younger develop the skills they need to be successful readers.

February 4, 2010

  • Arizona Education and Budget  |   Video
    • Arizona is facing a $3 billion shortfall in next year's budget. Education advocates are concerned about Governor Jan Brewer and state lawmakers’ proposed cuts to the state's education system. Dana Wolfe Naimark, CEO and President of Children's Action Alliance, and Panfilo Contreras, Executive Director of the Arizona School Boards Association, talk about their concerns.

October 29, 2009

  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month   |   Video
    • October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, hear the story of a domestic violence survivor who was helped by the Chicanos Por La Causa De Colores shelter, the only shelter in the Phoenix area offering a bilingual and bicultural environment.

October 22, 2009

September 24, 2009

  • Arizona STEM Education Center (STEMAZ) Initiative
    • STEMAz is a statewide organization focused on expanding student access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The STEM initiative is working to get these subjects more integrated into schools across Arizona.

September 10, 2009

  • Esperanza Latino Teacher Awards  |   Video
    • Chicanos Por La Causa will honor five Valley teachers at their annual Esperanza Latino Teacher Awards. These educators are recognized for their ability to make a difference in the lives of their students.

May 28, 2009

  • Charter School Legislation  |   Video
    • Arizona School Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne talks about his claim that a southern Arizona charter school is educating non-resident students from Mexico. He will also discuss the need for the Arizona Legislature to close a statutory loophole exempting charter schools from the same student residency requirement that applies to public schools.

February 5, 2009

  • Education Roundtable  |   Video
    • Arizona lawmakers pass a state budget to close the state's $1.6 billion dollar deficit. Budget cuts include nearly $300 million dollars to K-12 and higher education. Hear from Dr. Jim Zaharis,Vice President of Education for the Greater Phoenix Leadership and former Superintendent for Mesa Unified School District, Dr. Lattie Coor,Chairman and CEO for the Center for the Future of Arizona and former President of ASU, and Mike Martinez, Superintendent of the Cartwright School District and President of the Arizona Hispanic School Administrators Association on what the cuts mean now and for the future of education in our state.

December 11, 2008

  • Esperanza Latino Teacher Awards  |   Video
    • Chicanos por la Causa honored five Valley teachers as winners of the 10th annual Esperanza Latino Teacher Awards. These educators are recognized for their ability to make a difference in the lives of their students.

June 12, 2008

  • AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute  |   Video
    • AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute is a college access program that increases college enrollment and graduation rates for Latino youth. CEO/Founder Rosemary Ybarra-Hernandez joins us to talk about what makes this program unique.

March 20, 2008

  • Beat the Odds Education Initiative  |   Video
    • Valley schools are teaming up with the Center for the Future of Arizona to increase student achievement in an initiative called "Beat the Odds." The goal of the initiative is to develop more effective ways to improve a student's performance in school. HORIZONTE takes you inside one of the schools participating in the initiative. Center for the Future of Arizona's Chairman & CEO and former ASU President Dr. Lattie Coor tells us more about initiative.
      Beat the Odds Web site.

January 31, 2008

  • ELL Costs  |   Video
    • The Arizona School Administrators Association is asking for an additional $300 million a year in order to implement the English Language Learner (ELL) education requirements mandated by the Legislature in a law passed in 2006. Dr. Greg Wyman, Apache Junction Unified School District Superintendent and President of the Arizona School Administrators, and Mike Martinez, Cartwright School District Superintendent and President of the Arizona Hispanic School Administrators Association, tell us about their concerns if ELLs are not adequately funded by the state.

November 15, 2007

  • Arizona Latino Research Enterprise (ALRE) 2007 Town Hall
    • Among other important issues, the ALRE Town Hall will examine the state initiative to increase the number of math courses required for high school students to graduate in Arizona. HORIZONTE presents a discussion with Dr. Karen Nicodemus, president of the Arizona State Board of Education, and Dr. David Garcia, professor and director of the Arizona Education Policy Initiative at the ASU Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, on how to adjust the standards and identify the gaps for Latino students.
      Read the proposed rules regarding high school graduation requirements [pdf file]

October 25, 2007

  • Spanish Immersion
    • English speaking students in grades 1-5 at Desert Willow School in Cave Creek learn about math, science, and social studies, but all of their instruction is in Spanish. The school was recently awarded a half million dollar federal grant for its Spanish Immersion program.

June 28, 2007

  • Experience Corps
    • Experience Corps is an award winning program in more than twenty cities across the country, including here in the valley. Members tutor and act as mentors for elementary school students who need help with their literacy skills. Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo, Community Liaison for Mesa Community College/Mesa Public Schools explains how the program works.

June 14, 2007

  • Teach For America
    • Teach For America builds a selective group of outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in the urban and rural public schools of our nation's most impoverished communities and to become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity. Andrea Stouder, the organization's executive director and Corps member Marvin Rocha, join HORIZONTE to talk about their impact on the education system in Arizona and across the country.

May 10, 2007

  • 2006 Arizona Professor of the Year
    • The Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Glendale Community College psychology Professor René Díaz-Lefebvre as the 2006 Arizona Professor of the Year. HORIZONTE'S José Cardénas talks to Professor Díaz-Lefebvre about being selected for this award.

April 5, 2007

  • English Language Learners / Flores v. Arizona
    • Arizona State lawmakers respond to a federal judge's most recent court order in the 15-year-old Flores v. Arizona lawsuit. The judge ruled that the State continues to violate federal law by not providing adequate educational programs for English Language Learners. Guests: Rep. Tom Boone, (R) House Majority Leader Rep. David Lujan, (D) Phoenix, District 15

November 16, 2006

  • Una Promesa Campaign
    • A historic donation is helping to make the dream of a college education come true for students at Arizona State University. Jose Cardenas is joined by Dr. Sybil Francis, honorary co-chairperson for the Una Promesa campaign, and Avilia Guardiola, an ASU student who is receiving this scholarship.

August 3, 2006

  • Roosevelt School District
    • The Roosevelt School District takes on the challenge of raising students' performance scores or face being taken over by the State of Arizona. This is one of among many issues the district is addressing. Roosevelt School District Superintendent Dr. Mark Dowling and State Legislator and Roosevelt School District Board President Ben Miranda join Horizonte to talk about the district's issues and direction for the future.

July 6, 2006

  • Arizona's English Learner Population
    • Deatiled analysis done by ThinkAZ examines several aspects of Arizona's English language learner (ELL) population using recently collected data from six school districts across the state. Think AZ is a non-partisan research institute dedicated to providing information about key public policy issues in the state. Brian Owin, ThinkAZ Senior Research Analyst, talks about the policy details.

January 12, 2006

  • State of Education
    • State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne recently delivered his "State of Education in Arizona" speech. Horne talks about some of the new initiatives proposed in the address.

January 5, 2006

  • English Learning
    • Last month, a federal judge ordered the state to provide adequate funding of English Language Leaning programs. Stephen Tully, House Majority Leader Representative, and Tim Hogan from Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest talk about the ruling and the issue.