KNAU update for May 11

It’s been one week since Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed an education spending package into law. The legislation promises to partially restore recession-era cuts made to education and give teachers a 20% raise by 2020. Learn more at KNAU.org.

Opera fans, May 13th, Classical KNAU begins a series of broadcasts you won’t want to miss: Three Sunday afternoons with Arizona Opera. And what a cast of characters: An international superstar, a rotund drunkard and a story from the Old West. Sundays at noon on all the stations of Classical KNAU including our online service atKNAU.org.

Flagstaff planetary scientist Christopher Edwards has detected water all over the moon, which could mean new possibilities for space travel using the moon as a basecamp. Learn more at KNAU.org.

The Arizona National Guard is scheduled to send hundreds of infantry soldiers to Afghanistan this summer. The Daily Courier reports 100 soldiers with a Prescott-based company of Arizona’s 1st Battalion of the 158th Infantry Regiment on Sunday participated in a pre-deployment parade hosted by Prescott Valley. Learn more at KNAU.org.