Staff and students of Tempe's McKemy Middle School learned this week the district is considering closing the school next school year. A letter was sent home with students Thursday afternoon.

Two years ago, the Tempe Elementary School District governing board voted to close three schools.

A charter school run by Arizona State University may soon be part of the Tempe Elementary School District.

McKemy Middle School will close at the end of the school year and four elementary schools will merge into two, the Tempe Elementary School District governing board decided late Wednesday.

McKemy Middle School could re-open with a small program next school year if the Tempe Elementary School District has the funds, its governing board agreed Wednesday.

A committee looking at what to do with three closed schools in the Tempe Elementary School District has selected one proposal to go forward for McKemy Middle School, but did not pick any of the proposed ideas for Meyer or Bustoz elementary schools.

More than 150 parents, students and teachers attended the Tempe Elementary School District governing board meeting Wednesday night to protest a proposal to make McKemy Middle School a charter school.

Tempe Elementary School District has cancelled a public forum on closed school uses that was to take place Monday.

Tempe Elementary School district's governing board wants to keep educational programs in three campuses that were closed as neighborhood schools last spring.

School district administrators in the East Valley are blaming a contradiction in education laws for a high number of schools failing to make “adequate yearly progress” under the federal No Child Left Behind requirement.

For the first time, the East Valley's public schools have been graded just like their students.

Few public issues are more emotional than school closings.

Few public issues are more emotional than school closings.

Closed schools in Tempe could become a theological college, a day care, a community center, or a hub for small business training and networking under ideas presented to the Tempe Elementary School District.

The Tempe Elementary School District governing board on Wednesday night will hear the legal parameters surrounding what the district can do with three schools it recently closed.

Tempe Elementary School District administrators are asking for the school board’s OK to explore making another neighborhood elementary school a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade campus.

Tempe Elementary School District is facing low student achievement and major budgetary shortfalls that could lead to the closing of some schools.

The Tempe Elementary School District governing board hopes to hear ideas by the end of September from groups that may want to use three soon-to-be vacated schools.

May 20, 2005

East Valley educators say the federal government is painting an unfair and inaccurate picture of the quality of their schools.

East Valley educators say the federal government is painting an unfair and inaccurate picture of the quality of their schools.

Tempe’s Laird Elementary School will add two sixthgrade classes in the fall and gradually phase in seventh and eighth grades.

Lizett Segura’s son was enrolled in kindergarten at a neighboring district when she walked into Mesa’s Keller Elementary School looking for employment about five years ago.

The Tempe Elementary School District governing board could vote Wednesday night on expanding its traditional school option at Ward Traditional Academy to one of its now vacant campuses.