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Nominate a student for the Star's 'Student of the Week' feature, and view past winners.

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Here are the Star's 2008 lists of Tucson-area private and charter schools, available in searchable interactive or printer-friendly PDF formats:

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Find out how a school did in the following yearly testing categories:

Search the Star's database of 2006-2007 AYP results for Arizona schools.

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Space U:
100 years of curiosity, exploration and discovery

Read for the Star's three-day series about space sciences at the University of Arizona and across the state. Read the series »»

This database contains the salaries of UA employees from 2006.

A student must score the same or better on the test each year, compared to the year before, in order to be counted as making one year of academic progress. See the scores for all Arizona schools or choose one of these quick links to Pima County school districts:

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