The Arizona Capitol Times looks at yet another reason that Arizona continues to lag behind the rest of the nation in educational achievement:

A Cronkite News Service review of 94 superintendents’ contracts in districts with about 1,000 or more students found 40 in the first two years of their superintendency. At least nine districts will get new chiefs this summer.

“This is unusually high,” said Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, or AASA. “With a turnover like that, a district doesn’t really have the opportunity to stabilize. When you look at high-performing school systems, what you always see is stability.”

In addition, the average salary of $120,700 in those districts was 22 percent lower than the national mean reported by AASA.

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This is one way to break up a fight:

A Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy and his passenger were involved in an early-morning crash Wednesday in which the deputy’s vehicle narrowly missed a home.

The deputy was responding to a family fight when his patrol vehicle struck a tree and careened through a wall and into a residential yard near 115th Avenue and Union Hills in Surprise just after midnight, Wednesday, a sheriff’s office spokesman said. A witness said the car stopped about a foot away from the home.

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