The most prevalent ethnic group in the Santa Cruz County student body in the 2021-22 school year was Latino, according to the Arizona Department of Education.
In Maricopa County schools, there were more Latino students than any other individual ethnicity in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Arizona Department of Education.
The City of Tucson recently won a competitive, $5 million urban forestry grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to invest in Tucson neighborhoods on the frontlines of climate change.
Tucson Pima County Collaboration to End Homelessness (TPCH) released its gap analysis that showed an additional 1,367 shelter beds and 4,901 units of supportive housing will be needed to end homelessness in Pima County within the next five years.
The City of Tucson Department of Transportation & Mobility (DTM) is seeking input from the public on the design of the Stone Avenue Complete Street Project.
U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (AZ-08) introduced the Protecting Our Kids Act, which incentivizes the hiring and training of school resource officers (SROs) by giving states that will use the funds for such purposes preferential consideration for COPS Grant applications.
In August 2023, the City of Tucson Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) was awarded a $50 million Choice Neighborhood Implementation (CNI) grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.