Dwindling rainfall Saturday left behind flooding, road closures and rock slides across Arizona, along with torrential river flows extending from Roosevelt Dam to Tempe Town Lake and beyond.

Can high school coaches choose the method that determines which players will make their team? Apparently, not in the Scottsdale Unified School District.

After a school year fraught with dissension and unrest, coaches and athletic directors in the Scottsdale Unified School District appear to be getting on the same page with district administrators regarding sports programs in the city.

A mother who is suing the Scottsdale Unified School District has become part of a national trend: Parents who take schools to court when their children are bullied on campus.

September 23, 2004

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.

John Baracy is not coming to the Scottsdale Unified School District as an experienced teacher — like so many superintendents who work up the ranks.

May 16, 2004

Scottsdale Unified School District officials want to lease the grounds of Cheyenne Traditional School to the city to use for ballfields in an effort to add more revenue to the district.

Coolidge Unified School District’s interim Superintendent Darlene White is throwing her hat in the ring for the permanent position.

The face of the Mesa Unified School District has changed — and Superintendent Debra Duvall knows it. Many of her schools that were predominantly white just 10 to 15 years ago are now more than 50 percent Hispanic, and some are more than 90 percent Hispanic.

July 2, 2004

Residents of Mesa’s District 3 can learn more about the Building Strong Neighborhoods Initiative during an orientation 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Roosevelt Elementary School, 828 S. Valencia St.

In the calm before the school year begins, the only sounds filling the hallways of the Historic Irving schoolhouse are the echoes of solitary footsteps on its 70-year-old hardwood floors.

Red Mountain High School's AgriScience Department and FFA received the National Chapter Award and a gold rating from the Arizona FFA Association during the state conference last month.

He dressed in drag on Halloween. He wore pink pajamas and sat in a tree.

While Queen Creek Unified School District is working to address accounting errors that prompted the state to withhold some funding, its business manager has retired and a replacement is set to begin Monday.

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.

Twenty-two schools in the Mesa Unified School District are running at 80 percent student capacity or less. Seven schools each have more than $3 million in repairs needed in the next five years. The district’s enrollment has dropped by more than 6,000 students in the last eight years, and its budget has been chopped by at least $60 million in the last two.

A Phoenix group says it doesn't want Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer posse to patrol their kid's schools in the Roosevelt School District.

Four weeks have passed since Debra Gomez took the reins as interim superintendent of the Tempe Elementary School District — and not much has changed.

August 1, 2004

Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent John Baracy is retiring Oct. 3 to take care of his health, he said Friday.

Homeowners in a handful of school districts are in for a nasty surprise because of some changes state lawmakers made in education finance laws in the name of “fairness.”