The Mesa Unified School District is going to try again to find out where Alma Elementary parents plan to enroll their children next school year.

More than 200 families have started the process to enroll in the Mesa Unified School District's newest Franklin school.

Mesa Unified School District is considering a plan to expand the district's popular Franklin schools to the junior high level.

Last year, Franklin Arts Academies, which runs three charter schools in Gilbert and Mesa, faced the threat of losing its charter for inaccurately reporting student attendance.

Franklin Arts Academies, which runs three charter schools in Gilbert and Mesa, may lose its charter for inaccurately reporting student attendance.

Nearly 200 students are registered for Mesa Unified School District's Franklin Elementary at Alma School, which will open in August. Earlier this year, the governing board voted to close Alma Elementary School as a neighborhood school and open a back-to-basics Franklin program on the campus.

Mesa's Franklin East Elementary School was named a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School, for overall academic excellence, by the U.S. Department of Education.

Emmanuel Franklin missed playing football terribly.

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

A gun in an 8-year-old boy's backpack fired into the seat of a Mesa school bus Friday afternoon, school district officials said.

Mesa’s own Olympic champion Breeja Larson will return to her hometown to compete at the Mesa Swimming Grand Prix, this Thursday through Saturday at the Skyline Aquatic Center.

An East Valley charter school required by state law to enroll all students in an equitable manner routinely turns away some applicants based on poor test scores.

February 11, 2005

There is no school on Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day.

The stink of diesel exhaust dissipated moments after the yellow buses lined up at Gilbert’s Mesquite High School.

January 10, 2005

In the calm before the school year begins, the only sounds filling the hallways of the Historic Irving schoolhouse are the echoes of solitary footsteps on its 70-year-old hardwood floors.

With the closing of two junior high schools as neighborhood campuses for next school year, the Mesa Unified School District will hold hearings to create new junior high attendance boundaries.

A community committee voted Thursday evening on its final recommendations for boundary changes in the Mesa Unified School District.

A nonprofit group set up by the Mesa Unified School District to open a charter school will not move forward with the plans next school year.

The halls of Pilgrim Lutheran School in Mesa are lined with awards that single out a unique kind of champion one with pristine penmanship.