“This action will gut this agency”: ASDB board votes to move Tucson campus to Oro Valley, lay off 70 staff

“This action will gut this agency”: ASDB board votes to move Tucson campus to Oro Valley, lay off 70 staff

PHOENIX — The Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind will move to Oro Valley next school year, the Board of Directors voted Thursday — forcing many students, including those who are vision-impaired, to find a different school. The board vote to move was 5-2, with the two objections from Tucson resident William Koehler, a former school administrator and Phoenix-based member Earl Terry. A second vote to lay off about 70 people was 5-1 with Ter…