>> Coming up in the next half hour on Arizona PBS, on Arizona horizon, a preview of the upcoming prime time hearing committee investigating the capitol insurrection and unpaid internships.

Welcome to Arizona horizon and I'm in for Ted Simons.

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TheThey will hold pry time prime time hearings and Arizona PBS kill carry those hearings and for a look at some of thes Arizona angels, we talk to rod hansen and thank you for being here and nice to see you.

Let's talk about what's happening.

This is a broad view presentation of the panel's investigation and set the stage for additional hearings.

And what can we expect that set-up to look like visually Will we sue interviews or videos?

>> I think what the committee is look to do -- this is the first part of a book-end presentation in prime time to give the American public a chance to understand what they were working on and what really happened and lay out the overview of what they have been investigating for the past year and they want do this in a way that is dramatic.

Yes, we will see video presentations and we'll hear summations of this and I think the goal of the committee has been clear they want this to be not dull.

That unlike some of the dry hearings that could follow during the next week or any of the other prior hearings that we have seen from other congressional investigations, they want this one to sort of make a mark with the public and I think what we'll see at the end of it all is a summary, as well.

Sort of openings states in a court case and closing arguments to win over public opinion on this matter that has attracted so much attention and has a lot of folks still hung up as to whether it's a legitimate probe to begin with.

>> Presenting in prime time, a lot of eyes on this and what new information do you think we'll learn?

>> We're expecting to her a unified theory of how much of it involved the White House and people close to the president at the time and how much of it filtered out to other actors across the country including Arizona.

We had a number of people who were associated with the efforts to stop the steal and also at the capitol during January 6th January 6th.

So I think that what we want to do is pull this together and offer one theory as to how this all unfolded and my guess is that they are going to try to make the case that the president and his allies in the White House were trying to direct this violence, this movement to try to reverse an election that he lost.

And it resulted in violence, then, that spun out of control.

>> Let's talk about the Arizona Angeangles.

There were other key house republicans because they initial lieinitially refused to cooperate.

Are key republicans planning to cooperate at this point?

>> At this point, it looks like they will not be cooperating and they don't view this as a fair-minded investigation.

They view this as, Biggs has put this, a political witch hunt and they think this is a part Partisan political attack to prolong a matter that has run out of steam with the public and have to intention of cooperating.

This is something that could be bounced around in courts and don't expect to see anything from them any time soon.

>> This is a Democrat-lead committee, seven Democrats and two republicans.

Are there any republicans whose testimony would be of special interest to those of us in Arizona?

>> Yeah.

I think everybody wants to think concern McCarthy has to say.

He had a conversation with President Trump on the day of January 6th during the melee at the capitol.

He could help set the mindset of where republicans were at that moment.

Andy Biggs, we would like to know what he had to say about those events.

He has tried to separate himself from the stop-a-steal movement and minimize this events saying this is something that Democrats have done in years past in terms of expert sizing their right to reject the results as they were initially presented and so, I think that his testimony would be help filmful.

I just don't think we'll hear that.

>> How involved were the key members that we mentioned either in their actions leading up up to or during the January 6th January 6th attack?

>> Arizona, we can't forget, the closest state in the country in terms of the result separating Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the end and this state was important in terms of how the election would turn out and critically important to the trump effort to side step the voter results they didn't like.

In doing so, it has become clear that Congressman Gosar and Andy Biggs were important to the stop-a-steal movement and issued statements saying they were important and that he had direct involvement with them.

We know there are other people more peripheral but still involved in this.

Kelly ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona republican party is repeatly as this week, the "New York Times" report that she was involved in trying to broke a meeting between vice president Mike Pence and Sidney Powell, trying to connect them in December of 20 ahead 2020, to side-step the election results across the country.

We have other people, the state representative, who is running for secretary of state, who is trying to per perpetuate the image of a stolen election and run the state's elections after the election this year.

>> You touched on top-the-steal and saying it was instrumental in pulling it together or Andy Biggs.

How important will that be to the committee's investigation?

>> I think it's a second order concern, but it's still a very significanten one.

The idea that they have been pushing, I think, that this was not something that sort of bubbled up from the ground and that the public just sort of was not going to have it on that day, that it was very much directed from the White House down out to the folks who were interested in trying to avoid the election results that showed Donald Trump had logistic.

Solost.In that respect, stop-the-steal was a part of that effort.

Paul Gosar who was described as the spirit animal by the person who lead it and Andy Biggs who gave a taped message here in phoenix in December of 2020, that effort will be explored and looked at as, perhaps, putting kindling in place before the fire.

>> They will hold six public hearings and the next one on Monday, June 13th, 7:00 a.m., Arizona time and how should Americans approach these hearings?

>> With an open mind and hold the committee to proofs and they should ask themselves, really, what do they believe after they see the witnesses and view documents and hear the testimony for themselves and any kind of video that is associated with all of it and make sense of it, the setting aside, if we can, the Partisan inclinations asking if this is accept for elections.

>> Ron hansen of the Arizona republic, thank you so much and thank you for joining us.

>> Thank you for having me.

Some we take you to a microschool here in Arizona.

>> The devastating effects has it has on the education is being felt and teachers left the profession in record numbers and students fell behind as much as three great levels and not to mention arguments over mask mandates and the debate over curriculum and a new type of school, though, has come onto the scene known as microschools and they claim to offer a personalized information and we go on a field trip.

>> Reporter: Tucked into a small shopping center in fountain hill is what some call the future of ex.

education.

>> This is a microschool program which is a morningized learning environment and we have one teacher with no more than 12 students and we're able to customize this learning more students and give them a different type of educational opportunity.

>> Reporter: They started this in August of 2021 after spending 25 years as a teacher and an administrator.

>> I saw an opportunity for education to innovate itself and as we were going through the pandemic, I really thought that this was the time for education to do something different and put kids back into focus.

>> Reporter: This is what attracted this elementary teacher.

>> I really feel like working with children is definitely my calling and I love the kids and they are hiss hysterical and make me laugh and not only that, but to see the ah-ha moments when they grasp a concept is so rewarding and that's the best part about being a teacher.

>> Reporter: For years, she had been frustrating and things like class size, as many as 30 children in her Kindergarten class and lack of school supplies and support, but barker says 2020 was the hardest year of her decade's long career.

Watcher her colleagues struggle with teacherring during the pandemic left her feeling weary.

>> We did hydrid and half online and half at home and we would switch and the curriculum you taught was really stressful because you didn't know who grasped the concept and who did not and did I teach this and it was time consuming and stressful and then you didn't have that parent involvement because most parents are working themselves.

>> Reporter: Barker went looking for a more fulfilling and better opportunity.

>> At Adamo, she feels she's closer to studentses students and parents than in a classroom.

>> I wanted a closer relationship with the parents.

When you go home, it's not stop learning but continue learning and so when you do have that post relationship, you can let them know what we're working on.

>> The eighth and furthest planet from the sun, Neptune.

>> Reporter: This a hybrid of the schoolhouse past and home schooling.

>> No charge, no tuition and no fees and held to all state and federal guidelines just as any other public school.

>> Reporter: In order to keep the tuition free and receive federal dollars, it partners wit largest group, making this is a public school.

Ed-key encompasses Kindergarten through angle grade.

She was the superintendent and while anyone is allowed to teach, Becker requires all of her teachers have state certification.

Students choose how many times a week they do in-person learning and Becker and her teachers recommend studentses students come in three times a week and it's structured similar to regular schools with 45 minute classes.

They do self-guidance and one big difference, all of the grades interact at some point during the day providing socialization time.

>> 15.

>> Reporter: When Roman's charter's school shut down, he went to public school.

>> It's smaller and a smaller area to interact and get more information that I would need for the future.

>> Reporter: The single grader prefers Adamo's format to avoid the pressure to fit in socially.

Some with all of the new trends and how people to interpret things, it's difficult to keep up and I feel like here, people aren't too, like, pushy about it and accept you for who you are >> Reporter: Another added benefit is increased parent interaction.

>> We have a mini-parent-teacher conference and parented know what we've worked on and how they're students are doing and what do to support them when they're not with us.

>> Reporter: Microschools are not for everyone and concerns range from the large emphasis placed on independent learning versus in-person learning with a teacher to a lack of oversight with the state's education department.

Becker understands the criticism and sees microschools as a viable alternate to an already tapped and strained education arena.

>> I think that the need for school choice is important and so, in a community like fountain hills where there was no school choice, I felt for the families and the students here and so I wanted to make a difference in this community.

>> Reporter: Adamo education has just closed on another site and this one this queen creek and accept students this fall.

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>> We have had a break from Covid repeatly and although numbers are rising again and for educators dealing with Covid required a multipronged approach and we look at one innovative group of ASU students who got creative and Molly McBride shows us how filters are made.

>> Reporter: As an infection disease Epidemiologist, this associate professor and leader of the ASU outbreak response team, Megan jean was well managessedpositioned to hit and she stumbled across the idea to build these boxes and these DIY air purifiers are made out of five air filters and a box fan, designed to remove dangerous particles from the air to keep students safe.

>> If be we can filter this out, we lower the risk of transmission.

>> Reporter: Jean got to work, organize be these events with the response team where they build up to a hundred boxes and as time went on, more and more students started showing up to help and the building events are fun and assembling the boxes is easy and play music, hang out and build together.

>> I think.

you can see the students enjoy learning something new and doing something hands on, applying skills and giving back to the community at the same time and it feels good.

>> Reporter: The team put a form on social media for teachers who are interested in receiving a free unit and were immediately flooded with responses.

Many teachers can't afford a fancy filtration unit and desperate to keep students healthy.

They cost $70 to make compared to the $700 or more that a traditional hepa filter could cost.

They have one of the students in this classroom and said that as students are readjusting to in-person learning, having an added layer of protection is in valuable.

>> You know, something to simple that could keep my students safer, keep us in school and keep us from spreading Covid to families, I think that would be awesome.

>> Reporter: Helping students and teachers stay safe is worth all of the effort.

>> Here we have this evidence-based public health intervention that is very local cost and makes a dramatic difference in the health of the air that all of these kids are breathing and so to me, this is incredibly rewarding.

>> Reporter: More than 100 classrooms across the state are equipped with a box made by ASU students.

That's going to do it for now and thank you for joining us.

Have a great evening.