Choose Your School!

2010-2011 School Choice Forms Accepted through Feb. 5

You can apply to have your child attend any TUSD school, and, as long as there's room, your child will be accepted! Applications for the 2010-2011 school year will be accepted through Feb. 5, 2010. Use the school choice form to apply for open enrollment or magnet schools.

Mail completed application to:
P.O. Box 40400, Tucson AZ 85717

Or deliver to:
School Community Services
1010 E. Tenth St., Building B. (southwest corner of 10th St. and Fremont)

School Choice Form (English): In MS Word | In Adobe PDF
School Choice Form (Spanish): In MS Word | In Adobe PDF

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Stay Healthy This School Year

Take five minutes to talk with your children about the following:

1. Good hand-washing: Teach children to scrub their hands with warm water and soap for as long as it takes them to sing the “Happy Birthday” song slowly or the “Alphabet” song. Children over 5 can also use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
2. Coughing and sneezing into a tissue or sleeve – not in hands: Germs can spread easily when droplets of spit from a cough or sneeze land on your child’s hands. Be sure to wash hands after using a tissue.
3. Keeping hands away from eyes, noses and mouths: The flu travels into the body through places like our eyes, nose and mouth. Teach your child to keep their hands away from these places.
4. Above all, DO NOT send your child to school if sick.

See the Flu Information page for other important information and links, including a letter to parents from the Pima County Health Department.

Members Sought for Technology Task Force

The Technology Task Force Team is looking for members to serve on the committee. The committee's role is to develop, implement, and evaluate the strategic long range technology plan to insure the most appropriate technologies are effectively infused in curriculum and instruction in support of TUSD. The focus will be on classroom technology to support 21st century learning and the choice programs. Examples: electronic boards, 1 to 1 computing, electronic collaboration, curriculum based applications.

The committee will meet the second Tuesday of the month. The first meeting is Tuesday, November 10, 2009, from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in the Technology Services Conference Room. Parents and students are welcome.

If you are interested in representing district stakeholders, please email Jeremy Thompson at jeremy.thompson@tusd1.org

New on TUSD's YouTube Channel

Festival of Schools

Part one of four parts of the Festival of the Schools video series is running on TUSD/TV, Cox Channel 20, and on TUSD's YouTube channel.

Festival of Schools Video: Part One | Part Two

The other three segments will be ready this week and announced here as they are posted.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Listening & Learning Tour at Ochoa Elementary School

In conjunction with Representative Raul Grijalva's office, TUSD welcomed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Ochoa Elementary School for a Listening & Learning Tour on October 19, 2009. View the two-part video of this visit on YouTube: Part One | Part Two.

The video will also be shown on TUSD/TV, Channel 20, Cox Communications, Channel 71 Comcast, Sunday at 8:15 p.m. and Friday at 9:30 p.m.

Follow Us on Twitter and YouTube

TUSD has opened a twitter account to help us share updates and news with you. Follow our account at twitter.com/tucsonunified.

Our YouTube channel provides information about events and programs at TUSD.

TUSD is a Safe-T-Zone

The Department of School Safety is in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. To make an anonymous report regarding any on-campus concerns, including weapons, fights, graffiti, drugs, violence, or gangs, call the Safe-T-Zone Tip Line at 584-7680 or complete the online School Watch Information Sharing form.