Flowing Wells News

The Medicare enrollment period began Sunday and runs through Dec. 31. To get enrollment help: a Pima Council on Aging: 546-2011. a Medicare Plan Finder: Provides tailored plan-comparison information, including cost, coverage and convenience of each prescription drug and health plan.

Harelson Elementary School's Peace Conference had immediate results. Students from Harelson and other Amphitheater and Flowing Wells elementary schools joined last week to discuss the consequences of bullying, taunting, gossiping, rumor spreading and other negative behaviors.

Walker Elementary School in the Amphitheater Public Schools district received a $1,000 donation from the Wal-Mart at East Wetmore Road and North First Avenue.

Saying the best ideas aren't in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited a south-side Tucson school on his nationwide "Listening and Learning" tour to hear ideas about how best to fix the nation's underperforming schools.

On Oct. 18, 1989, "student for a day" Bob Hendricks was getting some assistance in his American history class from junior Kate Chesney.

Homer Davis Elementary School's doors don't close when classes are dismissed. The Arizona Department of Education awarded Homer Davis a five-year 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant worth $500,000 to offer an after-school Skills for Success program at the Flowing Wells school.

Tucson Police investigators are trying to determine what caused a 2005 Toyota Scion to crash near Miracle Mile and Flowing Wells, killing the driver.

Tucson's Desert Harmony is heading to Nashville for the prestigious International Convention and Competition of the Sweet Adelines Oct.

While bracing for an expected increase in the number of sick students because of the H1N1 virus, local school districts have plans in place to deal with a widespread flu outbreak.

School supplies that will be donated to teachers at public, private and charter schools are being collected at area Walgreens stores from now to Oct.

Students from Laguna Elementary School sit in the cool shade at Children's Memorial Park, chowing down on hot dogs prepared by firefighters from Northwest Fire District.

It feels pretty amazing. I haven't done anything with my life before and this is the start.

Over the past 10 years, about $20 million dollars has been poured into the financially distressed Flowing Wells neighborhood.

In school districts throughout Tucson, President Barack Obama presented a message about the important of education to students.

The county's three-year-old Joint Technological Education District is expanding its physical footprint.

Planned TV speech next week is decried as 'creepy' attempt to brainwash students By Rhonda Bodfield arizona daily star A planned televised speech by President Obama to students next week is sparking opposition in Arizona and across the nation from those who say he's using his platform to brainwash kids.

A state education task force has recommended that corporal punishment in schools come to an end in Arizona.

They could have been counselors in comfortable summer camps back east. Instead, 15 Jewish teens chose to participate in an American Jewish Society for Service program to help poverty-stricken residents in Tucson and environs from June 28 to Aug.

A new charter school at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base a ' the first ever for the Air Force a ' opens its doors today.

Flowing Wells Unified School District named Eegee's its Corporate Partner of the Year for the 2009-10 school year.