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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...
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...
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...
AdviseAZ receives more than $500k to continue supporting college attainment across Arizona
AmeriCorps recently announced that AdviseAZ will receive more than $500,000 to continue its college access work in Arizona. AdviseAZ is an AmeriCorps program that places current college students or recent college graduates in low-income (Title I) high schools and communities to act as near-peer advisers...
Arizona Voters Prioritize Education Over Politics
Voters Share their Priorities for Education, Encourage Candidates & Policymakers to Address Key Education Issues Arizonans continue to prioritize education and want every school to have great teachers and leaders, according to a recent statewide survey of 500 likely voters...
College Knowing & Going’s 2021-2022 Student Ambassadors Graduate from High School
College Knowing & Going (CKG), which is focused on increasing the number of students who complete steps toward a postsecondary education, is celebrating its second cohort of student ambassadors completing their service and graduating from high school...
Solidify K12-Higher Ed Connections to Firm Up Students’ Next Steps
By: Bill DeBaun, National College Attainment Network There are few more poignant moments than when students cross the stage and receive their high school diplomas. At that moment, families, district and school administrators, teachers, and everyone else who has helped the student get to this point see so much of their time and effort realized...
AdviseAZ helps more than 700 high school students during the 2021-22 academic year
AdviseAZ, an AmeriCorps program that places trained, near-peer college advisers in high schools and communities, just had 14 of their members successfully complete their first term of service on May 31, 2022. These members made a significant impact on their communities by serving more than 700 students across Arizona...