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By RHONDA BODFIELD Tucson Unified School District officials are hoping taxpayers will be willing to pony up an additional $28 million a year in tax revenues so the district can shrink class sizes, expand arts programs and entice more teachers to take hard-to-fill jobs.

A laboratory experiment that demonstrates how easily disease can spread, procedures to assure the safety of medicines, and learning how clinical trials are conducted are among the many lessons teachers from seven school districts in four states will learn this week at the R(x)eSEARCH Summer Institute at Montgomery High School.

By Phyllis Coulter BLOOMINGTON - Tight school budgets over the past few years have changed summer school programs.