Plans are moving forward to convert Erie Elementary School in Chandler to a seventh- through 12th-grade magnet school for the 2012-13 school year. The Chandler Unified School District governing board approved the proposal by a community committee during a meeting Wednesday.

The Chandler Unified School District governing board voted 5-0 Wednesday to hire an architect to convert Erie Elementary School into a high school preparatory academy.

A committee looking at space use in the Chandler Unified School District has identified Erie Elementary School as a future, permanent site for Hamilton Prep.

The Chandler Unified School District is looking at possibly repurposing Knox Elementary School. The district may look at creating a self-contained gifted school or developing some niche classes such as STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) or arts classes.

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

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!

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.

Arizona's public schools have kept up their academic performance from last year, according to the state's method for evaluating student achievement.

Kids Express, Chandler Unified School District's on-site, before- and after-school program for children ages 5-12, is accepting registration for the 2011-2012 school year. Students attending Erie and Hartford will be transported to Knox Elementary School. Students attending San Marcos and Galveston schools will be transported to Frye Elementary School. Call (480) 224-3915 for more information on these sites.

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.

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

Sarah Haugen’s third-grade class at Erie Elementary School in Chandler has studied several renowned artists and popular art forms, but the idea of abstract expressionism eludes them at first.

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.

The Queen Creek Unified School District governing board is meeting Tuesday at the district office, 20435 S. Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek.

Mary Chin, a teacher at Mesa Preparatory Academy who is finishing her teaching credentials at Arizona State University, has been awarded the Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship, valued at $175,000. The fellowship is given to “premier high school math and science teachers” as they start their careers.

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

Hattie Harris brought her four children out Thursday to eat a free lunch and learn about a police motorcycle at Harris Elementary School in Mesa.

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.

One by one, the kindergartners at McDowell Mountain Elementary School hold out their hands and wait for their daily squirt of sanitizer.

Several East Valley administrators or aspiring administrators recently graduated from the Arizona Educational Foundation's 2009-2010 Principals' Leadership Academy of Arizona.