Hi all, and welcome back to Educating Arizona! 👋 The big Valley education story last week was whether the Isaac Elementary School District — a Phoenix school district serving around 4,800 students — would be forced to shut down due to a financial crisis that left the district unable to pay its employees. After the consulting firm J.S. Held was appointed by the State Board of Education to take over the district’s operations, the firm found that the Maricopa County Treasurer’s Office had essentially cut the district off. The district owed the county $28.5 million that it had “no…..