The Gilbert Unified School District governing board will discuss start and end times for next school year at a meeting on April 14. The board was to discuss the matter during Tuesday night's meeting, but it was decided earlier to move it to a future agenda.

Thousands of students and staff who return to Gilbert Unified School District schools in the fall will have new computers to work on.

An outspoken Gilbert mother who routinely speaks at Gilbert Unified School District board meetings about autistic issues within the district received a stern response Tuesday night from the superintendent.

Local businesses looking to hire students are wanted for the Gilbert Unified School District's annual job fair.

The Gilbert Unified School District will hire a facilitator to help gather information about what qualities the community wants in its next superintendent.

Schools around Gilbert Unified School District will celebrate Jan. 22 when the district marks the 100th day of its 100th year.

The Gilbert district will start anew with the process to close Gilbert Junior High School after questions have been raised about whether or not the district followed state statutes the first time.

Gilbert Unified School District will remain on a traditional school-year calendar after a 5-0 vote by the governing board Tuesday night.

The Gilbert Unified School District is asking parents and staff their calendar preference for next school year. The district sent out 35,000 invitations to participate in the survey, spokeswoman Dianne Bowers said. It includes questions about using a modified year-round calendar or three different options for the traditional August start the district now uses.

Gilbert voters were turning down a school district request to renew its budget override, according to early unofficial results Tuesday night.

Gilbert Unified School District’s before- and after-school program, known as VIK Club, earned one of nine $1,500 STEM grants from the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence and Cox Communications. The grants were awarded to programs that “support creative efforts to incorporate science, technology, engineering and math into today’s curriculum,” according to a press release.

Has anyone considered moving Gilbert Classical Academy to the district office where there is already a gym, fields and parking? Then moving all district employees to GCA’s current campus. I feel it would be more fiscally responsible and would not displace any children, only adults. Are we not about the children?

Schools in Gilbert will receive a boost in math and science education thanks to a two-year Math and Science Partnership grant co-funded by the Arizona Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education.

The Gilbert Unified School District governing board will hold a public hearing on its 2012-2013 budget 7 p.m. June 19.

Gilbert voters will be asked to vote on a maintenance and operations budget override renewal on the November ballot after a 4-1 decision by the Gilbert Unified School District governing board.

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.

The Gilbert Unified School District is looking to open its first self-contained classroom for either second- or third-graders who are academically gifted next school year.

Gilbert Unified School District is seeking as much as $2 million in a lawsuit against a company it hired several years ago to create student information software.

The Gilbert Unified School District distributed contracts to staff Wednesday after the governing board approved salary schedules during Tuesday's meeting. Salaries are frozen for a second year in a row at the levels they were during the 2008-2009 school year.

As school districts struggle with additional ways to bring in money, the Gilbert Unified School District governing board has decided to allow a Scottsdale company the rights to sell advertisements that will appear through a link on the district's Web site.

Val Vista Lakes first-grader Katie Everett, 6, left, is greeted Monday by her principal Susie Apel after arriving to school on the bus on the first day of school in the Gilbert Unified School District.