Don Covey, Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools, has appointed Blake Sacha to fill the vacant seat on the governing board of the Gilbert Unified School District.

Timothy Ogle, superintendent of schools in one of Indiana's fastest growing school districts, will take over Feb. 6 as the executive director for the Arizona School Boards Association.

The Chandler Unified School District governing board will hear proposed boundary options Wednesday night for a new elementary school that will be constructed for the 2012-2013 school year.

The new Higley Unified School District governing board will meet for the first time Tuesday in a special board workshop, the group’s first meeting since Denise Birdwell was appointed interim superintendent.

Bob Dailey was sworn in May 5 as the newest school board member for the Florence Unified School District.

Lily Tram is making history as the newest appointee to the Gilbert Unified School District school board.

Lily Tram was appointed to the vacant seat on the Gilbert Unified School District board on Friday by Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Sandra Dowling.

Students now in eighth grade will need an additional year of math to graduate from high school under a new policy adopted unanimously Monday by the state Board of Education.

Newly elected and appointed school board members, whose terms begin Jan. 1, can take part in official oaths of office ceremonies presided over by Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Don Covey, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Approximately 20 individuals from school districts throughout Maricopa County are expected to participate.

Voters tossed all three incumbents from the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board Tuesday while approving, by a two-to-one margin, the sale of bonds to rebuild or renovate its decaying high schools.

Less than two weeks after announcing roadblocks in the city’s planning department would prevent him from his dream of opening a Montessori school in Maricopa, Maricopa Unified School District board member Shannon Johns announced Sept. 12 he is resigning from the board and moving his family back to Oregon.

It’s still undecided whether a new school district in the north East Valley will have schools, but it will at least have a governing board shortly after the new year begins.

Gilbert Unified School District has taken the first step toward completing its newest school as the governing board approved pre-construction services at its meeting Tuesday night, where officials also approved teacher salaries for the next school year.

A shift in control of the Scottsdale Unified School District governing board may spell a new focus on similar themes this year.

January 5, 2005

Chandler Unified School District governing board member Rob Barney will submit his resignation to the board next week. Barney and his family will be relocating as he takes a new job. His resignation will be effective June 16.

The Arizona School Boards Association is hosting free informational webinars on the basics of school board service and what it takes to run for office.

Across the East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets this month.

Voters in the Higley Unified School District approved expanding the governing board from three to five members in a special election Tuesday.

Across the East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets this month.

Across the south East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets in the next few weeks.

January 3, 2005