EVIT-districts fight awaits judge’s ruling

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge last Thursday pressed attorneys for both the East Valley Institute of Technology and nine member school districts about competing interpretations of Arizona law that could determine who controls millions of dollars in Career and Technical Education funding and how much oversight EVIT has over satellite programs operated on district campuses.

It could also affect the immediate future of some 3,600 juniors and seniors from those districts and their parents who have been anxious over how they will get from their high schools to EVIT’s Mesa campuses five half days a week when the new school year starts within a month.

The districts on Thursday told parents of students attending the Mesa campuses that they will not provide transportation this school year…

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