Metro Tech High School valedictorian comes from a family of valedictorians
High school graduations are underway and one Metro Tech High School valedictorian is keeping her family tradition alive.
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PHOENIX â This week, there are 19 graduations happening at the Veteranâs Memorial Coliseum and all of the schools are part of the Phoenix Union High School District.
ABC15 is highlighting a young lady named Lorena Calderon, the valedictorian for Metro Tech High School in Maryvale. âYeah, weâve been through a lot,â she said as she recounts over a Zoom interview about the year it has been for her and her graduating class of 2021.
May 10, 2021 12:00 p.m.
Arizona Senate Republicans’ conspiracy-theory-infused “audit” of 2020’s election results in Maricopa County will soon be interrupted by the sounds of Arizona teenagers celebrating the end of their high school years.
That’s right: Having counted just a fraction of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots, audit leaders at the end of the week will have to pack up and clear the floor of Phoenix’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum to make space for… graduations. Several days of them.
Audit leaders haven’t been totally clear about what happens after that: Their lease on the Coliseum which they obtained after Maricopa County made clear that they wouldn’t allow the audit to take place at a county facility runs through Friday.
A review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, ordered by the Republican-led Arizona Senate, is far behind schedule and won’t be finished in the time frame officials previously promised.
That puts completion of the audit and recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in November in doubt.
Firms hired by Senate President Karen Fann (R-Prescott) have been conducting the review inside Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds since April 23. In late April, Fann’s liaison, former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, told reporters they’d pick up the pace after getting off to a slow start.
As of Wednesday morning, though, Bennett estimated that roughly 200,000 ballots had been recounted so far. The recount effort, led by the Florida-based cybersecurity company Cyber Ninjas, has increased its capacity by adding more tables at which groups of three workers count votes for president and U.S. Senate on ballots. The firms have struggled to fill those tables, however