By Anonymous ROCK IN THE BOX The Executive Commillee of the Mining & Exploration Division (M&E) met from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Feb. 24.2008 in Salt Lake City, UT.

By George B. Sanchez, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 16--Tucson's largest school district has unveiled an ambitious improvement plan to offset its poor standing under federal accountability standards.

By Jeff Commings, ARIZONA DAILY STAR In one corner of a closely watched education debate, lawmakers and lawyers are fighting to give high school seniors classified as English-language learners the right to graduate without taking Arizona's assessment test.

An estimated 60,000 students will attend Tucson Unified School District schools this school year. About 12 percent of those are designated as English language learners, said Steve Holmes, director of Language Acquisition Services for the district. Most of those students' first language is Spanish.