Apollo Middle News Today

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Students across Southern Arizona have now settled into their classrooms for this school year. However, the rising concern of teacher shortages have districts getting creative.

A roof collapse at James L. Rickards Middle School became a symbol for all that is wrong with Broward schools’ troubled construction program, and many hoped it would be the impetus for change. But more than two years after the school district agreed to rebuild the Oakland Park school, progress has been slow, costs have skyrocketed, many students have left and those remaining are still learning ...

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona seeks to raise at least $225,000 for the nonprofit from the Sept. 23 event.

Timeline: Broward County schools have thus far failed deliver on promises made in the bond referendum approved by voters in 2014.

TUCSON (KVOA) — It’s going to be a busy day in the Sunnyside School District as students head back to the classroom Wednesday morning.

TUCSON (KVOA) — School districts in Southern Arizona are fighting to keep teachers and find new ones.

A roof collapse at James S. Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park has prompted Broward Schools to close off the media centers and some classrooms at four other identically built middle schools. Superintendent Robert Runcie told the School Board on Wednesday that he’s ordered safety inspections at Apollo Middle in Hollywood, Plantation Middle, Lauderdale Lakes Middle and Lauderhill 6-12. The ...

The campuses will remain open, but the media centers and nearby classrooms will be closed off temporarily at Apollo Middle in Hollywood, Plantation Middle, Lauderdale Lakes Middle and Lauderhill 6-12.

On April 25, 1979, the roof of the media center at Apollo Middle School collapsed after a major rainstorm.