newspapers in education : About Us

Betsy Stuetze

(520) 807-8402

bstuetze@tucson.com

Tucson's Newspapers in Education program supports schools and educators throughout Southern Arizona.

Throughout the school year print and electronic editions of the Arizona Daily Star are delivered to public, private and charter schools throughout Tucson and Southern Arizona.

This is made possible thanks to the generosity of local businesses and newspaper subscribers who donate their paper through the Vacation Donation program. The newspapers offer special content and guides to assist teachers as they use the newspaper in the classroom and to help schoolchildren develop the daily reading habit.

Donated papers are put in an account and drawn out as teachers want them, such as when there is special content in addition to daily delivery.

Schools use the newspapers for reading, social studies, science, math and life skills. Teachers receive guides and other materials to help them integrate the paper into the curriculum.

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Who is Janet Wood and why does she love newspapers?

Contact info To contact NIE manager Janet Wood, call 573-4495 or e-mail jwood@tucson.com.

Janet Wood manages the Newspapers in Education Program. A native Tucsonan, she started reading the Arizona Daily Star when she was 4. Janet and her dad would read the comic Alley Oop together each Sunday.

Janet earned a B.A. in secondary education at the University of Arizona and a M.Ed. there as well. She pursued additional graduate work in communications management at the University of Southern California.

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How to support NIE
Sponsoring a classroom for the entire school year costs $50.40. This gives the classroom one paper each school day. Contact NIE manager Janet Wood, at 573-4495 or e-mail jwood@tucson.com.

To donate your paper while you are on vacation,
call Customer Service at 573-4511. Vacation Donation papers are put in an account and drawn out as teachers want them, such as when there is special content (Earth Day, book serials and special sections) in addition to daily delivery.

Vacation Donation program
While you're on vacation, why not put your newspaper to work? When you leave town you may elect to donate the credit for your temporarily stopped newspapers to the NIE Classroom Literacy Fund.

Throughout the school year, thousands of area students will be developing fundamental reading, writing and math skills as well as social skills and citizenship thanks to you. Newspapers in Education supports these school goals by providing newspapers, education programs and student materials.

You can help support students, too, by calling 1-800-695-4492 when you go on vacation. It's easy: Just tell the customer service representative you want your newspapers to work in school classrooms while you're away.