School parking lots are pitted, roofs peeling, airconditioners aging. And East Valley school districts are giving up on the state’s promise to fund building maintenance.

This school in Tempe doesn’t have a football team, cheerleaders or a marching band. But it does provide an unusual service in a world of high-tech education: teaching its students to provide mobile entertainment.

The four former Qwest Communications executives indicted this week on federal fraud charges will have their day in court to determine whether they falsely booked nearly $33.6 million in revenue from a state contract to bring computer technology to Arizona schools.

One of only five accredited naturopathic colleges in the nation, the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences officially opened a new medical center in Tempe recently, bringing new teaching facilities and increased treatment opportunity to the Valley.

The foundation for the $3.9 million Queen Creek Unified School District office was finished this week as construction continues on the office planned since 2002.

Two Arcadia elementary schools will have some room to grow when they receive portable classrooms next fall to ease overcrowding.

Two Arcadia elementary schools will have some room to grow when they receive portable classrooms next fall to ease overcrowding.

Less than two weeks after announcing roadblocks in the city’s planning department would prevent him from his dream of opening a Montessori school in Maricopa, Maricopa Unified School District board member Shannon Johns announced Sept. 12 he is resigning from the board and moving his family back to Oregon.

Mesa schools construction manager David Peterson has been recommended to be the new chief of facilities management by Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent John Baracy.

Mesa schools construction manager David Peterson has been recommended to be the new chief of facilities management by Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent John Baracy.

March 9, 2005

When Scottsdale Unified School District administrators presented a facility use plan to the community in March, governing board and community members noticed something missing in the suggestion to close one school and consolidate two others: any mention of closing or changing nonschool buildings.

Politicians and scientists held out the promise of a cure for cancer and the birth of an important industry for the state economy Tuesday at the dedication of the headquarters for the Translational Genomic Research Institute and the International Genomics Consortium.

What started as four options to consolidate schools in Scottsdale has expanded to 53 workable plans. And every one of them will be up for discussion Tuesday during a Scottsdale Unified School District governing board meeting.

Scottsdale is prepared to offer a $195,000 contract to a company to design what officials are calling "conceptual" plans that would transform the city’s oldest golf course and driving range into a practice facility for the San Francisco Giants.

Thirty years ago was a high-water mark for Arizona State University athletics.

May 17, 2004

A cautious and reluctant Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board dipped into its only source of unrestricted funding at its Sept. 12 meeting, paying for three new school buses, bus drivers and 10 paraprofessionals for special services classrooms.

Declining student enrollment and state aid are leading Scottsdale Unified School District officials to redefine which schools will stay and which ones will go.

Across the south East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets in the next few weeks.

Across the East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets this month.

Across the East Valley, school districts will be approving budgets this month.

May 27, 2004

The Gilbert Unified School District governing board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the district office, 140 S. Gilbert Road.The board will hear an analysis of AIMS test results, and possibly approve an agreement with the East Valley Institute of Technology, for technical education.