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Suspending students for absences, tardies compounds learning loss tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Suspending students for missing class is a controversial tactic and though at least 11 states fully ban the practice, schools in much of the country - including Arizona - are free to punish students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more.

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Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to U.S. House – it’s an idea older than Congress itself tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In 1835, the Cherokee Nation was promised a delegate in Congress as part of the same treaty – Treaty of New Echota – that led to the death of thousands on the Trail of Tears. Nearly 200 years later, the Cherokee are still fighting to make that promise a reality.

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Arizona’s election certification moves the fight over results into the courts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials certified the state’s election results after a month of challenges to the certification process - but now it kicks off the five-day period in which lawsuits challenging the results can be filed in court and a long timeline for three statewide recounts.

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Assisted living facilities pressed to address growing needs of older, sicker residents tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Assisted living communities too often fail to meet the needs of older adults and should focus more on residents’ medical and mental health concerns - changes inspired by the altered profile of the population that assisted living now serves.

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Arizona families flocked to 'universal' voucher program tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona parents have flocked to apply for the state’s new universal Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, which let any family apply for state funds to pay for their child’s schooling, regardless of need.

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Gerrymandering squabble that puts democracy on the line up for SCOTUS showdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Supreme Court justices will hear from North Carolina lawmakers who argue that state legislatures have unchecked supremacy over federal elections, and state courts are powerless to intervene when lawmakers pass election bills that contravene the state constitution.

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Feds accused of cutting off migrant access to attorneys tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Detained migrants are legally entitled to speak with attorneys - and yet the U.S. immigration system regularly impedes on “basic modes of communication” between migrants and their lawyers - claims that are the basis of a new lawsuit over the ability of migrants to access lawyers.

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All Pima County libraries to offer free at-home COVID tests amid spike tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County has started offering free at-home COVID-19 test kits at all 26 of their public libraries as respiratory infections continue to spike here.

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Acclaimed Arizona author & poet Richard Shelton dies at 89 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Richard Shelton, a famed author and poet who helped further Tucson's burgeoning literary scene and spent decades teaching Arizona prisoners how to express themselves through writing, died last week at the age of 89.

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Acclaimed Arizona author & poet Richard Shelton dies at 89 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Richard Shelton, a famed author and poet who helped further Tucson's burgeoning literary scene and spent decades teaching Arizona prisoners how to express themselves through writing, died last week at the age of 89.

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Tucson, Pima County to vote on backing $1.1B battery plant tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A combination of city and county incentives would help land an American Battery Factory plant in Tucson — with a forecast of 1,000 jobs at a $1.1 billion plant. But the deal might remind some of the World View situation.

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Biden appoints Tohono O'dham & Pascua Yaqui chairmen to first tribal Homeland Security council tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. and Pascua Yaqui Chairman Peter Yucupicio were appointed by President Biden to the first Department of Homeland Security advisory council meant to protect tribal lands and citizens.

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'Real ID' delayed again, won't be mandatory for Arizona travelers until 2025 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The date when travelers will start to need Travel or Real IDs to get through airport security was extended for the third time on Monday, giving people until 2025 to apply for the documents, which will be required for all domestic air travel.

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Hobbs & Ducey certify Arizona’s 2022 election results tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The state’s top officials on Monday certified the canvass of Arizona’s midterm election, after a dramatic runup to the certification in which one county had to be forced by court order to certify its own election results to send to the state.

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TUSD set to cut dozens of school staffers to pay for bonuses for remaining employees tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
TUSD's Governing Board will decide Tuesday who from among about 100 employees will be let go so the remaining staff and teachers can receive one-time $7,500 stipends.

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Despite a losing season, University of Arizona football is building winning program tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Heading into 2022, the betting line for the Wildcats’ win total was three games - but despite a losing record this season, a strong performance against a top-10 team and winning the Territorial Cup show "there’s a lot of positives this season” for the University of Arizona football program.

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Here’s what you need to know about Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that quickly sends migrants to Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Title 42, the public health order that expels migrants to Mexico was launched early in the pandemic, and the Biden administration’s intention to end it has sparked a legal battle.

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Despite FTX fallout, some U.S. House members still skeptical about crypto regulation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Nearly nine months after a bipartisan group of U.S. House members sent a letter questioning the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into cryptocurrencies, the lawmakers are maintaining their position that the agency’s approach to regulating crypto is deeply flawed.

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Tribal leaders welcome return of White House summit, administration pledges tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
For the first time in six years, leaders of federally recognized tribes from across the country gathered in Washington last week to meet with Biden administration officials in a gathering one Oklahoma leader called “extremely powerful.”

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AZ health officials urge vaccinations for flu and COVID-19 ahead of holiday gatherings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the holidays loom, three respiratory illnesses are hitting the state and public health officials say now is the very best time for Arizonans to get vaccinated in order to be best protected come time for family gatherings.

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