by Anne Gibson In most cases with a November election, the results are available that evening. This is not what happened with the Vail School District’s $61.3 million Proposition 468 in the general election on November 6th, 2018. On Thursday, November 8th, two days after the midterm election, the Pima County Elections Department reported 11,006 or...
by Anne Gibson It was the Beyond Textbooks Super Conference and there was no comparison to the first conference that was held in a room at the Vail Education Center in 2010. The tenth super conference was held at the Cienega High School Student Union, the 300, 400, and 500 buildings plus the library. The big difference is with this year’s super...
by Anne Gibson It used to be that one would see a group of vintage restored vehicles or bright, well cared for Corvettes traveling through the greater Vail area, but they didn’t stop. Thanks to Ed Buster and Bill Brodhagen, you now find organized car shows at almost every large event in the area. Brodhagen, a former professional race car driver...
by Anne Gibson There was an unexplainable light shown over the Vail School District on Monday, July 30th, as 1,900 Vail School District employees and a handful of lucky guests filled Pantano Christian Church for the district’s annual “All Staff” program. “We do All Staff because it makes us better. We cheer for employees who have received...
by Anne Gibson Citizens of Vail for Education (COVE) wasted no time on jumping into action on Tuesday, June 26th after the Vail School District Governing Board called for a $61.3 million dollar bond. The bond question will appear on the November general election ballot for residents of the school district. COVE is a political action committee...
by Anne Gibson In October 2017, the Vail School District (VSD) set out to gather community input on how to best handle new student growth. Over 100 community members responded. The work from this committee ultimately formed a recommendation to the Vail School District’s (VSD) governing board to call for a bond election in November. Major...
by Anne Gibson The announcement of a combined expansion project named The Village at the UA Tech Park and the Technology Precinct using 20 acres within the 65-acre UA Tech Park at The Bridges may well be the largest development projects in the history of the Tucson area. Even better The Village is right here at the UA Tech Park within the...
by Anne Gibson The Arizona State Board of Education has released finalized grading of schools after an appeal system was activated when the initial release in October raised concerns. Some contested their school grades and some filed an objection to the formula being used to decide the grades. In October, we learned that we had missed an A score...
by Anne Gibson Connie Erickson will shortly begin a new adventure after 26 years as a teacher and 27 years as a principal. Her story in education begins in a one-room schoolhouse with an outhouse and no running water in South Dakota. She taught there for 26 years before moving on to her first position as a principal in Colorado and several years...
by Anne Gibson The Vail School District (VSD) takes its tag line “Where Education is a Community Effort” very seriously. There is no better example that when over 100 volunteers from the district gathered in the Dining Auditorium/Student Union at Cienega High School to make a recommendation on the issue of what to do when Vail reaches its capacity...
