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Ducey, Hoffman Pledge $270M To Help Schools Reopen Amid COVID-19
The bulk of the money will go toward remote learning and to protect schools from lost funding from lower enrollment.

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The bulk of the money will go toward remote learning and to protect schools from lost funding from lower enrollment.

Anti-Trump protesters in Phoenix were met with pepper balls, pepper spray and flash bang devices.
"I have never looked around my 100% full ICU and genuinely thought that there is the possibility of NO survivors," one Tucson nurse wrote.
Mayors in nearly a dozen cities — including Tucson, Flagstaff, and Tempe — have issued orders requiring mask usage in public.
Along with a two-word review of Gov. Doug Ducey's handling of the coronavirus crisis, Sinema called for more testing and contact tracing.
Police said four arrested Arizona protesters should have been charged with misdemeanors, not felonies. Now they face possible deportation.
"I don’t know if, in reality, I’ll get out alive of this place or if I’ll return inside a coffin to Guatemala, dead,” one ICE detainee said.
Across education, income and criminal justice, numbers tell the story Arizona's racial divide.
Demonstrators chanted for six minutes — about the amount of time Dion Johnson can be seen shot, writhing on the highway without medical aid.
About $87,500 has been spent in the $5 million set aside by Gov. Doug Ducey to keep laid-off Arizonans in their homes during the pandemic.
Jeri Williams, the first black police chief in Phoenix history, pledged to look at arrest polices and commended peaceful protests.
Moms talk about having "the talk" with their kids, telling them what they should do when — not if — they're confronted by a police officer.
Phoenix and Tucson residents hit hard by coronavirus-related layoffs and unable to pay their rent prepare for a wave of eviction orders.
The Phoenix Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting, which they said resulted from a struggle between the trooper and Johnson.
New coronavirus cases have steadily risen in almost every Arizona county since the expiration of Gov. Doug Ducey's stay-at-home order.
When Rep. Walt Blackman attacked George Floyd's character on social media, the American Friends Service Committee-Arizona cut ties with him.
Congressman Paul Gosar warns of "ballot harvesting" and the dangers of vote-by-mail, yet he regularly mails in his ballot.
“Don’t let them kill my son please,” Adrienne Bryant said after Tempe police showed up in riot gear after her 911 call about his crisis.
Reports to domestic violence hotlines surged in April; the United Nations has called for urgent action to deal with quarantine side effects.
The only hope opponents have of defeating recreational marijuana this year is likely to be a legal challenge that keeps it off the ballot.