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New K-8 schools are opening in the Marana and Vail school districts for the 2025 school year

VAIL, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Vail School District, local churches and community organizations came together Saturday to host their annual Vail Family Connections Day, hosted at Mica Mountain High School.

Friday evening, Coach Calvin Hill was taken from the hospital in Houston to his home for the first time in 180 days.

TUCSON (KVOA) - Vail Unified School District has closed all school for Wednesday.

It’s possible that Michael League will stop taking interviews with this writer, for fear of associated bad luck. 

TUCSON (KVOA) - Summer is almost over for students in the Vail School District. Grades K-8 return to class Monday. High school students start next Friday.

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The father of an Arizona elementary school student was arrested after he and two other men showed up to the campus with zip ties, threatening to make a citizens arrest on the school principal over a COVID-19 quarantine, school officials said Friday.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The father of an Arizona elementary school student was arrested after he and two other men showed up to the campus with zip ties, threatening to make a “citizen's arrest” on the school principal over a COVID-19 quarantine, school officials said Friday.

The claim: Parents in Vail, Arizona, took over the school board and removed the mask mandate A group of parents protesting mask mandates recently swarmed a Vail Unified School District meeting in Arizona, sparking online claims of a school board takeover by the group.  The protest followed Arizona Gov. Doug Duceys April 19 announcement rescinding the statewide order that directed K-12 schools to require masks. This gave districts the option to implement their own face-covering policies,...