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Bad apples on the rise in Little juggler Arizona’s classrooms BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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Mesa teacher drinking alcohol in the classroom, a Higley High School teacher arrested for improper behavior with a student and a Gilbert Public Schools teacher using inappropriate physical force on a special-needs student. The three bad apples were among approximately 75 Arizona educators who surrendered their teaching certificates in 2022 for misconduct and faced the state Board
Gilbert thespians make ‘Secret Garden’ soar. COMMUNITY.............................24 BUSINESS .................................. 27 SPORTS ......................................28 GETOUT .....................................29 CLASSIFIEDS ............................ 32
of Education. The board is responsible for imposing discipline on educators, certified and non-certified who’ve committed unprofessional or immoral conduct. That year also saw the highest number of surrenders since 2012, according to the agency’s “2022 Enforcement Action Report,” released earlier this year. The report includes the sources of complaints, discipline by gender, the type of certificates held by the educator and the types of cases.
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Gilbert to reap more bucks in opioid lawsuit BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ilbert is in line to receive more drug money that could be as much as $2.4 million from a second nationwide opioid settlement. Council is expected Tuesday, April 4, to approve a resolution signing onto the settlements with five opi-
oid manufacturers and distributors, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Allergan Pharmaceutical,,Walmart, Walgreens and CVS. The town’s share is 1.7% and so far received approximately $281,434 from the first settlement, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Synder. “Zero funds have been spent thus
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Avery Franklin, 6, bravely volunteered to take the stage and juggle three balls March 24 during the Gilbert Family Nights at Gilbert Regional Park. The event featured AeroTerra Arts, a collaborative effort involving local artists in aerial. fire, belly dance, free-running, Bollywood, break dance, tumbling and other similar stunts. For more scenes, see page 12. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
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