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

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.

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.

Students and staff at Tempe's McKemy Middle School raised $1,027.73 in memory of Christina Taylor Green, one of six people killed at an event with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson this past January.

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.

Tempe's McKemy Middle School is in the running to win a $25,000 grant from Pepsi.

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 announced Thursday it will not move forward with its proposal to make McKemy Middle School a public charter school.

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

The Tempe Elementary School District announced Friday it is postponing all upcoming middle school orientation nights while the governing board considers closing McKemy Middle School next year.

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.