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ARIZONA
Contact: Louis Stradling
Organization Arizona Education Coalition
Phone: (480) 964-8235
Contact: Debbie Niwa
Phone: 520-296-4169
Email: gabbyparrot@macol.net
Contact: Holly Craw
Address: Phoenix, AZ
Email: hsgrd@att.net
Links:
STW Is Career and Technical
AZ Tech Prep Chochise Consortium (Tech Prep is a federally funded Carl Perkins vocational grant administered by the Arizona Dept. of Education, School to Work Division, and the Arizona State Board of Community Colleges)
Career Pathways
Career Resource Network
Character Education
Department of Education (ADE)
Education Laws | Title 15 | Arizona Revised Statutes | ALIS Online
NAEP profile | NCES
Public School Districts' Dollars Spent in the Classroom | Report to the Arizona Legislature March 2002 | State of Arizona | Office of the Auditor General | Division of School Audits
School Facilities board
School Finance
School Law & Rules
School-to-Work
Social Studies Rationale
Social Studies Standards
Standards & Testing
State Skills Standards Information | NSSB
Arizona Education: School-to-Work
A School-to-Work System for Arizona: Final Evaluation of the State and Federal Initiative Prepared for: Arizona Dept. of Commerce School-to-Work Division, June 2001
Arizona Vocational Education - Accountability System, Sept. 2000
BACKGROUND PAPER 97-8 - SCHOOL-TO-CAREERS [NOTE: the "BACKGROUND PAPER" discusses Nevada, Arizona and other western states] BACKGROUND PAPER 97-8 - SCHOOL-TO-CAREERS | Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau Kelan J. Kelly, Senior Research Analyst, Research Division, Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau - April 1997
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 P.L.105-332 Arizona Vocational Technical Education, State Plan, 2000-2004 Prepared by The State Board for Vocational and Technological Education
THE HANDBOOK - Secondary Career and Technical Education Resource Handbook For CTE Administrators; Published by the Arizona Dept. of Education - April 2002 (Revised June 2002)
Performance Audit Arizona State Board for Vocational and Technological Education | State of Arizona Office of the Auditor General Report to the Arizona Legislature By Douglas R. Norton, Auditor General, June 1998, Report No. 98-10
Arizona Education: Career Pathways
Arizona Career Pathways Guide 2000 Classroom Activities and Projects for Grades K-12 - March 2000; Lisa Graham Keegan, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Mary Lewkowitz, Deputy Associate Superintendent and State Director; School To Work/Vocational Technological Education; Project developed by Office of Workforce Education and Development; Arizona State University, Under contract to the Arizona Dept. of Education
Career Pathways - An Implementation and Resource Guide
Career Pathways - Strategies and Resources 1999 - Project developed by Arizona State University, Under contact to the Arizona Dept. of Education
Arizona Workforce Development
Arizona's Workforce Development System - Comprehensive Plan Jan. 1, 1998-Dec. 31, 2000 - May 1999; Arizona Dept. of Commerce, Jackie Vieh, Director; Office of Workforce Development Policy, C. Diane Bishop, Director
FINAL REPORT - Skills and Competencies Needed by Arizona's Workforce: The Bioindustry - June 2001 - Prepared for the Arizona Dept. of Commerce, Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development in conjunction with Bioindustry School-to-Work Partnership
GSPED (Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development) Arizona's GSPED "administers Arizona's economic development activities, which are based on the "cluster-foundation" concept."
HEAT | Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Statewide Economic Study 2002 Arizona's Education and Workforce Infrastructure - July 2002 - Prepared for the Arizona Dept. of Commerce, July 2002
Workforce Development
Workforce Investment - Five Year Local Plan Program Year 2000-2004 - City of Phoenix - Human Services Dept.
Arizona Related Information
Accessing information/records: The Door to Open Government in ARIZONA
Legislators -- contact information: AZ House of Representatives and Arizona Senate
Legislative/policy updates/information: Arizona Recent State Policies/Activities | Education Commission of the States
Legislation affecting Arizona home educators: Home School Legal Defense | Arizona
2002 Legislation regarding Arizona home educators: Home School Legal Defense | Arizona
