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Queen Creek's Mikel Moreno The Republic's 2024 high school baseball Coach of the Year
Mikel Moreno won a state championship as a high school athlete. Now he's won one as a coach. Moreno has been chosen by The Arizona Republic as the 2024 high school baseball Coach of the Year, after leading Queen Creek through the 6A double-elimination tournament without a loss for the school's first state title in a big-school conference. Queen Creek won a state baseball title in 1989, when it was a 2A school.
Arizona high school football camp hosts HBCU scouts for recruiting
A group of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) gathered at Higley High School in Gilbert, Ariz. for a joint recruiting event. With a lack of recruiting in Arizona by HBCUs, organizers set up a high school football camp with 35 participants to run drills with scouts from Howard University, Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T University, Alabama A&M University, and Lincoln University in attendance.
Weapon detectors will be at all Mesa high school graduations starting this year
MESA, Ariz. — If you're heading to a high school graduation ceremony in Mesa this year, you'll want to get there a little bit earlier than anticipated. Mesa Public Schools (MPS) recently announced that all six high school graduation ceremonies will have weapon detection systems that everyone attending will have to go through.
Tom Horne advised 2 Phoenix-area schools to remove a club they didn't have
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne accused two Phoenix-area schools of hosting an organization he said distributes antisemitic materials to students. But school leaders say there’s a fundamental flaw in Horne’s accusation: The human rights advocacy organization at the center of his concern, Amnesty International, is not an active club on either campus. ...
Mesa students want schools to address causes of vaping, violence. Here's how
In the past year, Mesa Public Schools has decided to implement a slew of safety measures: metal detectors intended to catch certain weapons, vape sensors in bathrooms and an agreement to give the local police department access to school surveillance cameras when emergencies arise. But how do the students themselves think their schools can be made safer? ...
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