Gifted students will have another education option next year after the Gilbert Unified School District governing board approved creation of a self-contained classroom program.

Colorfully wrapped Christmas gifts were piled atop bookshelves in Mountain View High School’s library Tuesday afternoon. Shiny new bicycles were parked nearby with names like "Isabel" attached to handlebars.

Colorfully wrapped Christmas gifts were piled atop bookshelves in Mountain View High School’s library Tuesday afternoon. Shiny new bicycles were parked nearby with names like "Isabel" attached to handlebars.

Teachers say a new philosophy has transformed Higley’s Gateway Pointe Elementary School.

The Gilbert Unified School District submitted a $2million budget request to the state Thursday to fund extra costs associated with a new English Language Learner program.

It was an effort that exceeded expectations. And for Maricopa’s less fortunate, that was a very good thing.

Someone’s dropping off books for ninth-graders just in time for the holidays — and it’s not Santa Claus. The state Department of Eduction has just distributed AIMS study guides to 84,000 ninth-graders — just in time for use during winter break.

Mesa Arts Academy is a place of thought, where underprivileged children from the surrounding impoverished neighborhood come to learn.

October 21. 2004

When teenagers hit some tough spots, like family problems or academic stress, they can go to their parents, their teachers — or they can go to each other.

Shawna Meek moved her son, Connor, out of the Higley Unified School District after first grade because he wasn’t getting challenged and needed a better fit.

When Gilbert Unified School District decided to test the idea of allowing students to bring their own technology to school, Carol Rae Ranch Elementary School principal Geane Flournoy said she just had to volunteer her campus.

Chandler High School assistant principal Chris Knutsen reached the cap of his medical insurance policy last week and now must wait in limbo as his daughter’s life wanes.

Chandler High School assistant principal Chris Knutsen reached the cap of his medical insurance policy last week and now must wait in limbo as his daughter’s life wanes.