Partnerships & Resources
Develop and support ongoing strategic collaborative partnerships with Pima County education leaders (to include school district and charter school Superintendents, Business Officials and Teaching & Learning Leads), and other education-related agencies and organizations and provide connections to local, state and national education resources
Pima County & Southern Arizona:
• Pima County Superintendent’s Group
• Southern Arizona School Business Officials (SASBO)
Southern Arizona, State, County & National Resources:
Southern Arizona Education Organizations
• Southern Arizona Leadership Council
• Southern Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children
• Educational Enrichment Foundation (supporting Tucson Unified School District (TUSD))
• Tucson Regional Educator Collaborative
• Greater Tucson Leadership
• Higher Ground
• Tucson Values Teachers (TVT)
Arizona Statewide Education Organizations
• Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA)
• Arizona Association of School Business Officials (AASBO)
• Arizona School Administrators (ASA)
• Arizona Charter School Association (ACSA)
• Arizona Rural Schools Association (ARSA)
• Greater Phoenix Education Management Council (GPEMC) & Arizona Education Management Council (AZEMC)
• Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association (ASPAA)
• Arizona Association for Career Technical Education (ACTEAZ)
• Arizona Technology in Education Association (AzTEA)
• Arizona School Computer Users' Support (ASCUS)
• Arizona Business & Education Coalition (ABEC)
• Arizona Education Association (AEA)
• Education Forward Arizona
• Helios Education Foundation
• Arizona Association of School Psychologists (AASP – AZ)
• Arizona School Counselors Association (AZSCA)
• Arizona Association for Gifted & Talented (AAGT)
• Arizona Council for Exceptional Children (AzCEC)
• Education Technology Consortium (ETC)
Arizona County School Superintendents – Education Service Agencies (ESAs)
• Apache County Education Service Agency
• Cochise County Education Service Agency
• Coconino County Education Service Agency
• Gila County School Superintendent
• Graham County Education Service Agency
• Greenlee County Superintendent of Schools
• La Paz County Education Service Agency
• Maricopa County School Superintendent’s Office
• Mohave County Education Service Center
• Navajo County Education Service Agency
• Pima County School Superintendent’s Office
• Pinal County Education Service Agency
• Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools
• Yavapai County Education Service Agency (YCESA)
• Yuma County Superintendent’s Office
National Education Organizations
• Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
• Association of School Business Officials (ASBO International)
• American Association of School Administrators (AASA) - The School Superintendents Association
• Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA)
• WestEd
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• ESEA Network - National Association of ESEA State Program Administrators
• Education Commission of the States (ECS)
• Edunomics Lab, Georgetown University
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Council of the Great City Schools
• Chiefs for Change
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
• National Association of State Boards of Education
• National School Boards Association (NSBA)
• National Education Association (NEA)
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
• National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
Arizona Education-Related State Agencies
• Arizona Department of Education (ADE)
• Arizona State Board of Education (AZ SBE)
• Arizona State Board for Charter Schools (ASBCS)
• Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections (ADJC)
• Arizona Department of Administration – School Facilities Division
• First Things First – Arizona’s Early Childhood Agency
• Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR)
• Arizona Auditor General’s Office
• Arizona Department of Child Safety - Report Child Abuse or Neglect
Arizona Non-ADE State Agency Education Programs
• Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) - Arizona Early Intervention Program (AzEIP)
• AHCCCS – Accessing Behavioral Health Services in Schools
• Arizona Education Workforce Scholarship Program (Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) program supporting safe and affordable child care options for parents working in publicly funded PreK-12 district and schools)
WestEd – Region 15 Comprehensive Center and Regional Education Lab (REL) West
• WestEd Region 15 Comprehensive Center
• Regional Education Laboratories West (REL West)
US Department of Education (ED)
• Main ED website
• Laws & Guidance
• Data & Statistics
• Office of Elementary & Secondary Education (OESE) – Technical Assistance Centers
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• NCES – Common Core of Data (CCD)
• NCES – Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS)
• NEW NCES Education Across America: At a Glance Tool
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• Office of Civil Rights (OCR) – Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)
• SchoolSafety.gov
Arizona Education Data and Statistics
• Arizona Department of Education (ADE) – Public Data Sets
• ADE - Accountability & Research Data
• ADE - Arizona School Report Cards
• ADE - School Finance Reports
• Arizona State Board for Charter Schools (ASBCS) – Performance Frameworks
• Arizona Auditor General's Office
• Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association (ASPAA)
• Pima Association of Governments (PAG)
• Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) (includes statewide data)
• Education Forward – Arizona Education Progress Meter
• Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) – Education Progress Meter
• ASU HELIOS Decision Center for Educational Excellence
• Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) - Reports
Contact Information:
Peter C. Laing
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Peter.Laing@pima.gov | 520.724.8918