The Tempe Union High School District is getting a new assistant superintendent for human resources.

Mesa voters were approving a $230 million bond question for the school district Tuesday night in early unofficial results.

A plan that would double the cost for students to play high school volleyball or to join an orchestra is leaving some board members in the Tempe Union High School District feeling uneasy.

East Valley school board races this fall have drawn a great deal of interest, with contested races now in place for Mesa, Gilbert and Higley unified school districts, Kyrene and Tempe elementary districts, and the Tempe Union High School District.

The Tempe Union High School District governing board voted last week to put two issues on the November ballot.

Since the early 1990s, Arizona's open enrollment law has allowed students to attend public schools outside the districts where they live. But in most cases, families had to provide their own transportation.

Three school districts that serve kindergarten through 12th grade students in Tempe will remain separate, according to early voting results.

Voters in the Kyrene Elementary, Tempe Elementary and Tempe Union school districts will decide in November whether all three should be combined into a single unified district.

A state panel wants to create two Tempe school districts with Guadalupe Road as the dividing line, despite pleas from educators and city officials for one unified system.

July 20, 2004

Tempe native Marie Heidemann remembers trips to visit friends in semi-rural Gilbert in the early 1990s through the open fields, the "desolate" downtown and an abandoned Higley Road.

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.

Faced with declining enrollment and an impending budget shortfall, the Tempe Union High School District is hoping to make a wise investment in the form of one employee.

For more than a decade, hourly wages for janitors, bus drivers and maintenance workers hardly budged in the Mesa Unified School District, though teachers saw slight increases along the way.

For more than a decade, hourly wages for janitors, bus drivers and maintenance workers hardly budged in the Mesa Unified School District, though teachers saw slight increases along the way.

While the central parts of the East Valley are seeing a decline in student enrollment this year, outer school districts are reporting increases.

The Mesa Unified School District hopes to keep cuts away from classrooms next year, but teachers could be hit if all parts of the proposed Joint Legislative Budget Committee budget are passed, school officials said Tuesday.

East Valley students and their families are invited to meet experts on programs and services that help students with disabilities succeed in the transition from high school to adulthood.

The state’s largest school district said Friday it does not collect data about student cases of the “superbug” staph infection known as MRSA.

Mesa high school seniors who do well this school year could have something besides a diploma to look forward to: They might win keys to a new Ford Mustang.

Parents of the more than 60,000 students in the Mesa Unified School District will soon be able to check their children's attendance records with the click of a mouse.

Tempe Elementary School District and Tempe Union High School District serve the same community.

Kay Grams doesn’t want her 16-year-old daughter’s name going into a military recruitment database.

Tempe kindergarten teacher Patti Pompa walks five miles a day. The Hudson Elementary School teacher eats healthy and encourages her kids to do the same.