Child Opportunity Index: How is your neighborhood for raising kids? See more state education and legislative news here
By Garett Archer • ABC15 ARIZONA
PHOENIX — How is your neighborhood for raising kids?
This past week Diversity Data Kids in partnership with Brandeis University released the Child Opportunity Index. The index uses data for the country’s 100 largest metro areas and scores them in areas such as education, health and environment, as well as social and economic factors.
Madison Wisconsin received the highest score of all metro areas in the country with an 83 out of 100. The Phoenix metro scored 43, well under the national median of 55.
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See more Arizona education news here:
- Ahwatukee Foothills News — Foster child statistics point to troubling trend
- Arizona Capitol Times — School choice has caused segregation worse than 50s, 60s
- Arizona Capitol Times — Education Department blunder puts ESA parent names in hands of anti-voucher group
- AzCentral — The people who oversee Arizona’s public universities rarely disagree. Is it good governance or are they a rubber stamp?
- AzCentral — ‘I’m one of those kids’: New head of state child welfare agency relates to kids in care
- Cronkite News — Speak Up, Stand Up: Arizona students gather to address suicide, bullying, addiction
- Herald/Review — ‘Leadership Thru Teamwork’: Student Councils From Across State Converge On Sierra Vista
- KTAR News — Conference encourages Arizona students to speak up about bullying
- 12NEWS NBC — Arizona students take an anti-vaping campaign to the State Capitol
- 12NEWS NBC — ASU gets $937,000 from GoDaddy founder to help pay tuition for ‘Dreamers’
See more education legislative news here:
- ABC15ARIZONA — Bill to close teacher discipline loophole moves forward
- ABC15ARIZONA — Teachers weigh in on Arizona Governor Doug Ducey’s education budget proposal
- AzCentral — Opinion: Give Gov. Doug Ducey’s education budget some credit (even if Arizona needs a lot more)
- Arizona Daily Star — Gov. Ducey defends education funding plans, opposes effort to raise taxes on wealthy
- AzFamily — Bill to address Arizona special education funding for first time in nearly 20 years
- AzMirror — Ducey’s $12.3B budget seeks new K-12, public safety spending
- KJZZ — AZ Lawmakers Set To Consider Tax Increase For Education, Alternatives To Paying Traffic Tickets
- KJZZ — How Much Is Needed To Fill Arizona’s Special Education Funding Gap?
- Payson Roundup — Legislative candidates react to governor’s educationproposal
- PBS Newshour — Arizona bill would ban transgender girls, women from sports teams
- White Mountain Independent — Candidates respond to Ducey’s education budget
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