The graduation venue for CUSD schools has been changed to outdoors in ASU starting this year and parents are not happy about it.

Originally, the venue for graduation used to be inside the ASU campus in the air-conditioned basketball courts. Now, they have been moved outdoors due to two specific reasons. First, ASU bumped their price by $44,000. They also had a limit of 10,000 tickets and if the district wanted more, they would have to pay $1,300. Second, there were still mask mandates in ASU and they would not be addressed until May. In CUSD,  there are no such mask mandates and the district felt that the same policies should apply for graduation. Instead of the funds being used for graduation, they are used for fixing things up in the district schools. Parents are not very happy because in May, it usually gets very hot in Arizona and the thought of having to sit out in the heat does not make them happy.