Other Arizona school districts receiving funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Enhancing Education Through Technology 21st Century Classrooms Project

The grant is part of the 2009-11 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Enhancing Education Through Technology 21st Century Classrooms project.

Teachers envision using the river to gather information that will be catalogued and discussed on blogs, in class and in Webinars with fellow students or environmental officials.

"We're only limited by our imaginations," said Joanne Nyquist, a Title I teacher and computer lab instructor at Walter J. Meyer School who, with district business manager Lisa Reames, was part of a team that developed the 93-page application for the grant. She said early ideas on how to use the technology range from conducting Internet-based research to taking "virtual field trips" with the help of Webcams and videoconferencing.

School officials at Tombstone High School, including teachers and administrators, will select two seniors from a pool of nearly 100 graduating seniors based not only on their G.P.A., but also their extracurricular activities, class attendance and courses taken.

The cuts, said Superintendent Karl Uterhardt, total $550,567, or the equivalent of an 11 percent cut from the state. Many of the cuts would eliminate full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, which can be distributed among multiple employees. Specifically, his proposal would:

Karl Uterhardt, Tombstone Unified School District superintendent, said the district filed suit to force the contractor, Richard E. Lambert Ltd., to make good on promises to complete a "punch list" of problems that ranged from leaky windows and doors to non-working sinks to more serious, underground plumbing issues.

The school district is honoring the former teacher, coach, principal and mentor by dedicating the gymnasium at the new high school in his name.

Members of the football, baseball, softball and tennis teams begin by changing in the locker rooms at school, and then, instead of practicing at their own school, they board a bus and travel to their old high school across town - which has been vacant since 2006.

The board voted to reinstate serving lunch at the elementary school, where it's been suspended since the 2008-09 school year due to a $38,000 budget deficit. For the last year and a half, students had to hop on a bus that ferried them to Tombstone High School for their mid-day meal.