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