Fewer than half of Arizona’s third graders are reading at grade level — a sobering trend that education leaders hope to reverse with a new statewide literacy plan.| KJZZ
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Phoenix police are delaying the launch date for new rules on when officers can resort to violence or use physical force on suspects until Feb. 18. The policy has been under construction for nearly the entire tenure of the interim police chief who took over the agency in 2022.| KJZZ
Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.| KJZZ
The Phoenix Police Department — Arizona’s largest law-enforcement agency — has been understaffed since the Great Recession. Now, by approving Proposition 314, voters have effectively increased officer workload by making them immigration agents, too.| KJZZ
Phoenix has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to provide details on specific incidents referenced in the DOJ’s June 13 report that found the Police Department has a “pattern or practice” of violating constitutional and civil rights.| KJZZ
