Edward “Ian” Buster, son of Corona de Tucson residents Ed and Maria Buster, is a second-year mechanical engineering student and AFROTC Cadet at the U of A. Ian is a 2015...
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VUSD Update – August 2025
Off to a Great Start The 25/26 school year is off to a great start. This year is especially exciting as we celebrated the grand...
Read MoreVUSD Update – November 2024
In Vail… Parents Get to Choose Long before I became superintendent, I was a Vail dad. Like many of you, my wife and I moved...
Read MoreBest Of Class 2024
Congratulations to the graduating class of Pantano High School 2024! Read what these graduates have planned for such promising...
Read MoreVail School District Foundation – July 2023
The 2023-24 school year is off to a great start! We would like to thank 3 more of our renewing sponsors for this school year...
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Arizona School Board
Arizona School Board Makes Changes to the A-F Model” by Stacy Winstryg of The Vail Parent Network Since 2010, Arizona has used an A-F letter grade system to measure school performance...
Park University Local Graduates
Park University Announces Local Graduates from Davis-Monthan AFB Campus Park University’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Campus Center held its commencement ceremony on June 10 at the Fox...
For Students, Summer is Over in Vail
by Anne Gibson The Vail School District opened in 1903 in a one-room schoolhouse. For the 2016-17 school year, Vail had over 12,000 students and 1,700 employees serving 19 traditional...
Piano Lessons: An Ideal Time and Place to Begin by...
Because I teach piano students in several Tucson-area school districts, the Vail School District’s oddball academic calendar, out of sync with those of the other districts, creates a...
What Is A Teacher? By Stacy Winstryg of The Vail...
What is a teacher? When I think of the word teacher, a few words come to mind: educator, mentor, professional, instructor, professor. But teaching encompasses so much more. A good teacher...
Organizing and Kids
Summer Organizing with Kids by Jennifer Phelps of Jennifer Phelps: Organize. Design. Reinvent! It’s a few weeks into summer, the rug rats are bored, the house is a mess and you haven’t...
Local Student Makes University Dean’s List
Melissa Ann Moy, from Vail, made the Dean’s List at Iowa State University for Spring 2017. Melissa is majoring in biology. Students named to the Dean’s List must have earned a grade...
Seven Essential Life Skills by Sharon Taddeo
Vail School District’s Community Programs offers high-quality programs where children are introduced to academics through essential life skills. The essential life skills are researched...
Best of Class
Andrada Polytechnic High School Andrada Polytechnic High School Valedictorian is Lora Versluis. Lora will be attending Northern Arizona University in the Pre-Nursing program. She...