Shane McCord was named Tuesday night as the assistant superintendent for administrative services for the Gilbert Unified School District.

The Kyrene Elementary School District’s governing board has chosen one of the district’s own to be the next superintendent.

Hundreds of Tempe Union High School District employees want the governing board to promote the associate superintendent to the district’s top position and forego a nationwide search.

Higley Unified School District’s assistant superintendent of human resources resigned this week, effective June 30.

Chad Wilson is no longer the principal at Apache Junction High School. As of July 1, he will be the assistant superintendent for educational services for the Apache Junction Unified School District.

Assistant superintendent Don Jefferies is resigning from the Scottsdale Unified School District to return to his home state of Texas.

Former State Senator David Schapira has been appointed assistant superintendent at Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology.

As a way to showcase the artistic talents of district employees, art teachers and other artistic employees will now be given the chance to show their artwork in the upstairs superintendent’s reception area and superintendent’s office at the Gilbert Unified School District office.

Mesa Unified School District Superintendent Deb Duvall was named Superintendent of the Year by the Arizona School Boards Association. She will now represent the state at the national competition in Florida in February.

A search firm looking for a superintendent for Coolidge Unified School District has narrowed the pool of 19 applicants to six.

Mesa school district's Associate Superintendent Michael Cowan said he is ready to lead the largest school system in the state if given the chance later this year.

The Kyrene Elementary School District will host public forums beginning tonight for community members to meet the four finalists in the search for a new superintendent.

The Kyrene Elementary School District will host public forums beginning tonight for community members to meet the four finalists in the search for a new superintendent.

Public image, morale, falling finances and declining enrollment in Scottsdale Unified School District were top issues Saturday at two public forums with the district’s six candidates for superintendent.

After 38 years in education, John Baracy, superintendent of the Scottsdale Unified School District, is retiring.

The Tempe Union High School District Governing Board on Tuesday named Kenneth Baca the new superintendent of schools effective July 1.

A new two-year contract for Gilbert Unified School District Superintendent Dave Allison will be considered by the district’s governing board Tuesday night.

Dave Allison was named as the new superintendent of the Gilbert Unified School District at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.

Two women and two men, including an elementary school principal and a former math teacher, are in the running to be the next superintendent of the Gilbert Unified School District.

Superintendent Mike Cowan will lead the first Mesa Parent Advocates for Quality Schools (MPAQS) meeting of the school year, 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the district’s board room, 549 N. Stapley Drive.

Higley schools superintendent Joyce Lutrey is a candidate for the superintendent position in Nebraska’s Papillion-La Vista school district, according to the Papillion Times.

Higley Unified School District Superintendent Joyce Lutrey was considered as a finalist for a superintendent position in Minnesota, but was not offered the position.

A former prosecutor of financial fraud cases was named Tuesday by Gov. Janet Napolitano to be the next superintendent of the Arizona State Banking Department.