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PXU's Fall Sports Media Day is now underway 🏈 View the livestream here: https://vimeo.com/event/5325171

This year's Club Crawl at Bioscience High School was a blast! 🐉 🥳 This fun annual club recruiting event was topped off with cold treats and senior coronations! 🍧 👑

This morning was the annual PXU Employee of the Year breakfast where all of the Employees of the Year from across the district came together to eat breakfast and talk about their experiences at PXU🎉. Thank you to Central’s incredible Culinary Arts program for serving delicious food and providing amazing customer service 🔥Congratulations to all Employees of the Year! 👏

Today, the Society of American Florists stopped by Metro Tech’s Flower Shop to learn about their program and tour the shop 🌸💐 The visitors came from all across the country and world, and each received a boutonniere made by the floral students. We are excited for the Flower Shop grand opening this year!

New PXU merch just dropped 🔥 Represent PXU and support the Phoenix Union Foundation by visiting https://stores.inksoft.com/pxuhsdaz_fe/shop/home 💻

Tonight, the PXU Governing Board had many amazing things to celebrate🎉! First, the Board recognized our employees of the year, Ulises Aragon (Administrator), Cynthia Barragan (Classified), and Jesse Hoover (Certified). Then, they honored Juan Viveros from Metro Tech for being the first Skills USA National Medalist from PXU in over 25 years. Finally, the Board recognized our large school and small school Academic Achievement awardees, Cesar Chavez High School and Phoenix Coding Academy. Congratulations to everyone who was recognized!

What an incredible first day of school, PXU Family! 🔥 Let’s make the 2025-2026 school year the best year we’ve ever had 🎉

It’s the first day of school🔥!!! We are so excited to welcome back our incredible students to our campuses this morning. Many of our schools have welcomed back the Class of 2029 first and will welcome the other classes later this morning. Here’s to an amazing school year! 🥳🎉

School is finally back tomorrow! We are so excited to have all of our amazing students back on campuses with us. Please check your inboxes or school websites/social media pages for information from your schools regarding the first day of school bell schedule and any other information. 🔥

Attention future PXU student athletes! ⚾️ 🏀 We have an upcoming PXU Sports Physicals event at Alhambra High School on Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All PXU Students and families are welcome to attend.

¡Atención futuros atletas estudiantiles de PXU! ⚾️ 🏀 Tendremos un próximo evento de Exámenes Físicos Deportivos de PXU en la Preparatoria Alhambra el sábado 9 de agosto de 2025, de 9:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m. Todos los estudiantes y familias de PXU son bienvenidos.

PXU is excited to announce our amazing 2025 Employees of the Year 🎉 Congratulations to Administrator of the Year, Ulises Aragon (Bioscience), Certified Employee of the Year, Jesse Hoover (Maryvale), and Classified Employee of the Year, Cynthia Barragan (Alhambra). 🔥 Thank you for your dedication to our students and district!

PXU is so proud to announce this year’s incredible Students of the Year 🔥 Congratulations to Bodon Hinton from Desiderata, Jonathan Guardian Robles from Linda Abril, and Mayen Usoro from Cesar Chavez for exemplifying what it means to be a Phoenix Union student. We are so proud of you!

Yesterday, PXU had a very successful Opening of Schools Convocation at GCU where all staff from every PXU school came together to celebrate the start of the school year 🎉 Congratulations to the Spirit Stick winners, Phoenix Coding Academy and Betty Fairfax. We are so excited for another amazing school year 🔥 #StrongerTogether

Today at Central High School, the PXU Community came together for the Return to School Resource Fair! 💈📚 Thanks to the support of our incredible community partners, PXU families received dental checkups, sports physicals, health screenings, and so much more. We’re proud of our Family and Community Engagement Team—and all our partners—for making this event a success. Now, even more of our community is ready for the new school year just around the corner! 😌🏫✏️

Today, Education Support Professionals from across the district representing all job families gathered at Carl Hayden for the Classified Induction Experience 🎉 We are so excited to start another school year with so many amazing ESP's throughout the district.

It’s Freshman Orientation season 🔥 We stopped by Alhambra yesterday for their Freshman Orientation and are so excited to welcome the Class of 2029 onto our campuses so soon. 🎉 The first day of school is August 4th! It’s not too late to enroll at PXU.org/Enroll 💻

For the past 2 days, Certified employees from across the district gathered together at Carl Hayden to prepare for the upcoming school year 🎉 At our annual Certified Induction Experience, participants learn all about the inner workings of the district and have fun through community building and professional development. Thank you to all who make this annual Experience happen! 🔥

It’s Freshman Orientation season 🔥 Today, we stopped by Chavez to see all of the festivities during their Orientation. Freshman success is important to the work we do as a district, and we are so excited to welcome new 9th graders onto our campuses. 👏

For the past two days, Administrators from across PXU came together to prepare to welcome back all of our amazing students in just a few short weeks 🎉 Through various workshops and informational sessions, PXU’s administrators are better equipped to embody this year’s theme, Stronger Together 💪. We are so excited for this school year! #StrongerTogether

PXU Summer 2025 Graduates, we are so proud of you! 🎓 You persevered and put in the work to finish strong. Congratulations, and we are so excited to see you make your mark on this world 🔥