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Extraordinary look back at previous years BY DR. CURTIS FINCH Superintendent Deer Valley Uni�ied School District
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espite the struggles of COVID-19 this past school year, the Deer Valley Unified School District (DVUSD) had one of its best school years for achievements. If there was a regional, state or national award given out, DVUSD was probably on the list! If one of the 32,000 DVUSD students, 4,000 staff, or 40 schools were eligible to compete for the award, they had a great chance of bringing home the top hon-
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ors. Many of the 2020 school year awards can be found at dvusd.org/ extraordinary. DVUSD staff update the long list of awards annually and it is not unusual to have 20 pages of successful students, staff, school and/or district acknowledgements. For example, this past school year, two DVUSD students won the District YOUTH One Phoenix City Council Young Man & Woman of the Year. There were multiple honors at the state level with six AIA State Championship and four runner-up athletes and teams, 45 Career and Technical Education (CTE) State Championships, and even a U.S. Presidential Scholar. DVUSD
students were offered $73 million in scholarships to further their educational, athletic, extra/co-curricular, or life journey, a direct product of performance on academic national tests and student competitions in such groups as CTE, Educators Rising, Junior Achievement, Future Business Leaders of America, Stock Market Game, Academic Decathlon, DECA Inc., athletics, music and the arts. DVUSD staff won the Arizona CTE Administrator of the Year and the Arizona CTE New Teacher of the
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