Chandler’s Arizona College Prep-Erie earned a Top 100 on Newsweek’s 2013 America’s Best High Schools list.

Demand is so high for the Knox Gifted Academy in Chandler that the district is recommending converting the entire campus to that program once this year's kindergartners complete sixth grade.

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

Pencils and glue sticks and paper, oh my!

Construction is well under way in the Chandler Unified School District on a new elementary school to open in July.

Upset parents, confused children and signs that read “Save our school” have become a familiar sight in the East Valley in the last few years.

Gilbert Junior High School would be closed as a neighborhood school and Gilbert Classical Academy would move there under a plan outlined in a parent letter sent home this week.

Until now, hardly anyone has said a peep about cell phone towers going up at 18 school sites in the Chandler Unified School District, according to district officials.

Until now, hardly anyone has said a peep about cell phone towers going up at 18 school sites in the Chandler Unified School District, according to district officials.

Many parents were unhappy Tuesday night as they learned more about their school district’s proposal to close Gilbert Junior High as a neighborhood school and move Gilbert Classical Academy into its space.

Subdivisions and roads already bear the Riggs family name. Next on the list: An elementary school. The Chandler Unified School District’s 26th elementary school will be named “Riggs Elementary School,” after a family that’s been in the area for nearly a century.

Subdivisions and roads already bear the Riggs family name. Next on the list: An elementary school. The Chandler Unified School District’s 26th elementary school will be named “Riggs Elementary School,” after a family that’s been in the area for nearly a century.

Educators at Chandler’s Humphrey Elementary School hope to teach knowledge down to a core next year.

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

Educators across the East Valley are trying to take the stress out of the AIMS test for elementary and middle school students taking the exam this week.

Paul Koch comes from a long line of blue-collar workers. His great-grandfather left Germany to settle in the U.S. as a toolmaker, a craft handed down to his sons, grandsons and great-grandson. Along with thousands of others, they collectively created an industry and identity for Erie, Pa., as a major tool-and-die center.

The 26th annual Arizona Home Education Convention and Curriculum Fair will be July 17-18 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Register by Wednesday for 50 percent off admission. For more information visit www.afhe.org. Contact AFHE at homeschool@afhe.org or (602) 235-2673.

Phil Feinberg needed a year of trying to clear the 7-foot barrier. He has about a month and a half to go one measly inch.

Find all the support group meetings, classes, prayer times and more around the East Valley.

Find all the support group meetings, classes, prayer times and more around the East Valley.

Find all the support group meetings, classes, prayer times and more around the East Valley.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Born, raised and educated in Ohio, Urban Meyer now finds himself trying to destroy the championship dreams of the team he rooted for as a kid.

Seminar offered on the aging spine

Do you know the biological age of your arteries?