Tempe’s three school districts will finally get a glimpse Monday of consolidation proposals created by the state Legislature’s redistricting commission. The commission is charged with coming up with proposals to unify school districts such as the Tempe Elementary, Kyrene Elementary and Tempe Union High School districts.

Tempe’s three school districts will finally get a glimpse Monday of consolidation proposals created by the state Legislature’s redistricting commission. The commission is charged with coming up with proposals to unify school districts such as the Tempe Elementary, Kyrene Elementary and Tempe Union High School districts.

A state commission charged with proposing approaches for combining elementary and high school districts to improve education while saving some tax money has lost its way.

Thanks to the Independent Redistricting Commission, we might see something done in Congress this year.

Tempe Union High School District employees fear for their jobs. Parents and residents are frustrated with the lack of information. Tempe City Council members worry the community will be divided.

A state commission that convened more than a year ago to look at the possibility of combining some of Arizona’s 227 school districts is expected to begin voting today on which of those districts should be unified.

Attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer told the Arizona Supreme Court Monday the justices have no legal right to overturn her decision to oust Colleen Mathis as chair of the Independent Redistricting Commission.

The state’s redistricting commission decided late Monday to revert to existing boundaries for legislative districts that cover much of the East Valley after an appeal from Republican leaders, including former House Speaker Jeff Groscost of Mesa.

Three school districts that serve kindergarten through 12th grade students in Tempe will remain separate, according to early voting results.

East Valley voters in the Kyrene and Tempe elementary school districts and the Tempe Union High School District can learn more about the Nov. 4 vote for unification during a public forum 6:30 p.m. Friday. The meeting, limited to 50 attendees, will be held at Phoenix Fire Station 43’s Community Room, 4110 E. Chandler Blvd., Phoenix. Legislative action put the measure on the ballot to combine the three districts into one. A representative of the School District Redistricting Commission will be on hand to answer questions. For more information, visit

Initial consolidation proposals created by the Legislature’s redistricting commission have few supporters in Tempe’s three school districts.

Initial consolidation proposals created by the Legislature’s redistricting commission have few supporters in Tempe’s three school districts.

  PHOENIX -- Arizona voters will soon decide whether dozens of school districts should join forces.

North Scottsdale’s Christopher Verde school district would no longer exist if a Valley lawmaker has her way.

The Kyrene Elementary School District is requesting the School Redistricting Commission not place a unification plan for the district on the ballot in November 2008.

Last fall, a state commission recommended that the three school districts serving students in Tempe unify into one, despite repeated opposition from many people living and working in those districts.

A state commission is recommending that the three school districts serving students in Tempe unify into one, despite repeated opposition from those districts.

East Valley voters are encouraged to attend a public forum to learn more about the school district unification proposal on the November ballot. The forum will be held Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Fire Department, Station 43 - Community Room, 4110 E. Chandler Boulevard in Phoenix.

Two-and-a-half years after Arizona voters rejected nearly all proposals to combine 76 elementary and high school districts around Arizona into 27 unified districts, state legislators are starting the steps to put the issue back in front of voters.

It was billed as a school district with no schools. But now that the north East Valley’s Christopher Verde School District is starting to form, board members have discovered it also has no money.

A group of parents and teachers is calling for the resignation of the chairman of a state committee convened to look at unifying many of Arizona's school districts.

A parents committee and the Tempe City Council say yes. Three school boards say no. But ultimately, it will be up to a 13-member state commission to decide whether a measure to merge the Kyrene and two Tempe school districts makes it onto the ballot.

Candidates for two slots on the Kyrene Elementary School District’s governing board have plenty of hot-button topics to talk about.