Author: Becki Stephens
Celebrating One Year of Education Forward Arizona
Student success equals Arizona’s success! This month, we celebrate our one-year anniversary and our vision to create a more robust education organization—work that includes advocating for education policies that advance education equity, mentoring college students and providing scholarships—as well as working in high schools to help create a college-going culture across the state...
Education Forward Arizona Holds inaugural benefit dinner on Thursday, Oct. 20 in Scottsdale
An InspirED Evening will celebrate collaboration and innovation in education Education Forward Arizona, a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all Arizonans, today announced that it will hold an inaugural benefit dinner this fall in Scottsdale...
Why Arizonans Should Vote Yes on Prop 308
We believe that every student in Arizona should have the opportunity to pursue education or training after high school. If passed, Proposition 308 will help nearly 2,000 Dreamers each year gain access to more affordable postsecondary education. Prop. 308 will provide in-state tuition rates for all Arizona high school graduates, regardless of immigration status...
Arizona FAF$A Challenge and Ask Benji provide six students with money for college
Ask Benji—an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that provides 24/7 assistance to students completing the free application for federal student aid (FAFSA)—recently sponsored scholarships for students who graduated from one of the six schools that won the Arizona FAF$A Challenge during the 2021-22 academic year...
Use Fit and Match to Increase Students’ Success
By: Bill DeBaun, National College Attainment Network Among students who entered college in the fall of 2015, about 60% completed a degree or certificate six years later. Just three out of every five students who jump through all of the hoops, complete all of the forms, wade through all of the processes and actually matriculate […]
Op-Ed: Voters Want Candidates to Focus on Key Education Issues
By Rich Nickel, President and CEO of Education Forward Arizona Excerpted from the Arizona Capitol Times In a state where significant challenges plague the education system — and legitimate solutions exist —strong leaders thinking and working together across both sides of the aisle can ignite meaningful change...
Arizona Budget and ESA Expansion Fall Short for Arizona Students
By Rich Nickel, president and CEO, Education Forward Arizona Last week, the Arizona legislature reached a compromise to pass a budget, which included much-needed investments in K-12 education and important resources for schools serving students from low-income families and students with disabilities...
FY23 Budget Overview
While we were pleased to see a bipartisan budget that includes much-needed investments in K-12 education and resources to support students from low-income families and students with disabilities, we were disappointed that a long-term P-20 solution to education funding was not addressed...
Why attainment and the Achieve60AZ goal matter
How increasing education levels will benefit all Arizonans In Arizona, we have an important goal for educational attainment—the Achieve60AZ goal—that 60% of Arizona adults to attain a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030. The Achieve60AZ goal was set more than five years ago with the support of a broad community alliance of more than […]
More than 150 Education Forward Arizona Scholars and their families honored for graduating college
Graduates collectively received over $2.5M dollars in scholarships and support services To help expand college access and attainment across the state, we honored more than 150 Education Forward Arizona scholars who graduated from college last month during a special ceremony at our headquarters in Phoenix on May 26...