The Marana Unified School District's bus drivers got to train using a simulator. The Trust, Inc., or the Arizona Risk Retention Trust, which insures about 250 school districts in Arizona, facilitated the training.

TUSD’s African American Student Services Department is hosting a parent session to share local resources for educational success.

The event will be held Thursday at 6 p.m. at Palo Verde High School, 1302 S. Avenida Vega.

The Pima County Library will be on hand, leading a workshop on maximizing free resources offered by the library system including the Brainfuse Online Tutoring program, an online service that also provides study materials and practice exams for the SAT, ACT and GED, and the online reading program Achieve 3000.

Staff from TUSD’s Advanced Learning Experiences office and several middle school magnet programs will also be on site.

For more information, call 584-7500.

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