The Mesa Unified School District may close one of its elementary schools at the end of this school year. Mesa has never closed a school before, said district spokeswoman Kathy Bareiss.

Hugs, handshakes and more than a few tears immediately followed the Mesa school board announcement Tuesday night to keep Jordan Elementary School open.

Parents are expected to protest the possible closing of Jordan Elementary School in Mesa during a public hearing Tuesday.

Hundreds of frustrated Jordan Elementary School parents left a meeting late Wednesday night still not knowing if their school will close this spring.

Jordan Elementary School will close as a neighborhood campus at the end of the school year and become home to an early childhood education program, the Mesa Unified School District governing board decided Tuesday night.

The fate of Jordan Elementary School is on the agenda tonight when the Mesa school board is expected to vote on whether to close the school.

Mesa school board president Rich Crandall visited Jordan Elementary School Tuesday morning to prepare for a meeting with parents and teachers about the possible closing of the school.

In just a few days, a north Chandler community will learn the fate of an elementary school that's been at the center of emotional, often heated, discussion for months. On Tuesday, for the first time in its history, the Mesa Unified School District will consider shuttering a school - Jordan Elementary.

A handful of Mesa Unified School District campuses could be converted next school year — one to house special needs programs and one to test creative education methods — under a plan proposed this week.

The Mesa Unified School District will hold a meeting 6 p.m. Thursday at Eisenhower Elementary School, 848 N. Mesa Dr., to explain a proposal to turn the school into a campus of “innovation” next school year.

Students now in the Jordan Elementary School attendance area in Chandler may be reassigned to Pomeroy or Washington elementary schools, according to a plan presented this week by the Mesa Unified School District.

Mesa families at Eisenhower Elementary School learned Thursday what education may look like at the school next year if the district moves forward and creates a “creative and innovative” school on the campus.

The Mesa Unified School District will hold its first public hearing Tuesday about a proposal that could close Jordan Elementary School this spring.

Hundreds of parents filled the auditorium at Hendrix Junior High School Tuesday night, most of them to protest the possible closing of Jordan Elementary School.

Reconfiguring grade levels, repurposing low-enrollment elementary schools and making boundary adjustments for subsets of Mesa students were some of the topics discussed Tuesday as the Mesa Unified School District continues talks of possible change for the 2009-10 school year.

Librarians in Mesa want the school district to know they will not go quietly.

Administrators, parents and students at a Gilbert charter school have joined forces to try to ward off an electric utility’s plan to build a substation with high-voltage power lines in front of the campus.