About 100 Whitmore Elementary School students attempted to make their way into the Guinness Book of World Records by participating in a hand sanitizing relay at Tucson Medical Center Thursday. Each person had to demonstrate the eight steps of good hand hygiene according to the World Health O…

The Arizona State Board of Education is hosting a public hearing in Tucson Thursday to get community feedback on K-12 math and English standards.

The Board of Education’s Academic Standards Development Committee is hosting the statewide hearings over the next month.

The Tucson event is from 6 to 7 p.m., Oct. 29, at Pima Community College’s downtown campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave., Building CC Room 180.

Though the State Board of Education voted to sever ties with Common Core, the current standards will remain in place but they can be modified.

For more information on the standards, visit k12standards.az.gov

To submit feedback online, go to k12standards.az.gov/comment-standards

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Contact reporter Alexis Huicochea at ahuicochea@tucson.com or 573-4175. On Twitter: @AlexisHuicochea