With a laser focus on sustaining, growing, and expanding excellence in Arizona, closing the achievement gap is no longer just an aspiration.

Our Belief

With a laser focus on sustaining, growing and expanding excellence in Arizona, closing the achievement gap is no longer just an aspiration. Choice, data, flexibility, and investing in those who are serving kids at the highest level are all part of the formula for success.

Our Community

From Nogales to Snowflake, Arizona is home to a visionary set of agile and passionate school principals and system leaders who are relentlessly driving results for kids and providing access to great teachers and learning environments driven by high expectations.

Our Lens

Our policy research and public education is driven by what these no-excuses innovators tell us about their best practices, hurdles faced in sustaining their excellent schools, or challenges discovered in the process of growing their impact, scaling great ideas, or redefining schooling.

Arizona's successful school leaders embody what is possible for our education system in this state and serve as a critical counterbalance to a too-prevalent tendency to focus education policies and investments solely on fixing failure.

Emily Anne Gullickson

A for Arizona Founder