At some point this school year, some Mesa high schoolers might be assigned to read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” and encounter the famous last line:
Arizona public schools and charters received more than $2.2 billion in the last three years thanks to a federal fund program. But this school year is the last one they’ll be getting any of that.
Nearly 50 applicants threw hats in the ring to serve out the year-and-a-half term left on the open Mesa Public Schools Governing board seat, vacated by former board member Lara