Parents in the Tempe Elementary School District have started a Web site aimed at giving more people a voice in the future of their children's education.

When students see computers, their first thought is usually about the games they can play, said Dave Hanlon, a fifth-grade teacher at Scottsdale’s Hopi Elementary School. But directing children to the right online resources can make computers a learning tool.

Jordan Elementary School will close as a neighborhood campus at the end of the school year and become home to an early childhood education program, the Mesa Unified School District governing board decided Tuesday night.

The Mesa Unified School District’s elected leaders will start examining elementary school enrollment and trends Tuesday, looking at whether or not there will be school closures or the merging of campuses in the future.

A Mesa facilities planning committee will recommend closing a handful of elementary schools and rebuilding when appropriate when it finalizes its recommendation next week for the district governing board.

Scales Elementary School students will experience the first day of school all over again today as they move to a temporary campus.

Students and parents can now anonymously report a school crime or a problem by text messaging or sending an e-mail.

Students and parents can now anonymously report a school crime or a problem by text messaging or sending an e-mail.

Students now in the Jordan Elementary School attendance area in Chandler may be reassigned to Pomeroy or Washington elementary schools, according to a plan presented this week by the Mesa Unified School District.

Another elementary in the Chandler Unified School District is considering a mandatory uniform policy.

While not yet final, the Maricopa Unified School District has plans on the table for redrawing the district’s elementary school boundaries in time for the fall semester.

A MRSA case was discovered Nov. 2 at Maricopa Elementary School, the Maricopa Unified School District announced. The case was quickly isolated and all the potentially affected rooms were cleaned.

About 400 people stood in a large Gilbert alfalfa field Wednesday to mark the building outline of what will be the town’s first full-service hospital.

List of historical sites and links to photos and/or information about them.

Don Sage showed up Tuesday with coffee in hand to survey the damage to the county island home that was almost his.

Despite the in-person pleas from one parent and numerous calls and e-mails to the school board from others, the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board unanimously approved a change in elementary school boundaries Feb. 27.

Before the green grass, the trees, the flowers, the concrete walkways, block wall bench seating and painted tiles, San Tan Elementary School’s courtyard was merely a wide expanse of dirt, weeds and stones.

Before the green grass, the trees, the flowers, the concrete walkways, block wall bench seating and painted tiles, San Tan Elementary School’s courtyard was merely a wide expanse of dirt, weeds and stones.

Gilbert Elementary School was in a modified lockdown for about 25 minutes Thursday morning after Gilbert police informed the school an “agitated” parent might visit the campus at 175 W. Elliot Road.

Hugs, handshakes and more than a few tears immediately followed the Mesa school board announcement Tuesday night to keep Jordan Elementary School open.

Students at Higley’s Coronado Elementary School are not shy about the amenities they’d like to see on campus: More plants and trees, a wall ball court, shade structures, an amphitheater and more.

A committee looking at space use in the Chandler Unified School District has identified Erie Elementary School as a future, permanent site for Hamilton Prep.

A Gilbert man who built a fake profile on a pornographic website to get back at a school administrator is looking at jail time.

School books, desks and boxes are tucked into many corners and hallways at the former Brimhall Junior High School in Mesa.