The Chandler Unified School District governing board approved a $289 million budget Wednesday night for the upcoming school year.

Gilbert firefighters used bulldozers in fighting a hay fire late Tuesday and into Wednesday that was about 300 yards from Payne Junior High School, near Higley Road and Hunt Highway in Queen Creek.

The Chandler Unified School District’s James T. Perry Administration Building is about to undergo a $3.3 million renovation.

Desert Edge boys basketball coach Joe Babinski has been hired to replace Mark Nold at Perry, Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said in an email.

Golf enthusiasts and supporters of Chandler Unified School District are invited to participate in the 9th Annual Chandler Education Foundation golf tournament and fundraiser to be held at Whirlwind Golf Resort on Sept. 10.

Two girls were flown to the hospital Wednesday after they were struck by a car in Queen Creek near Grapefruit Street and San Tan Boulevard.

The Chandler Unified School District's Charlotte Patterson Elementary School, 7520 S. Adora Blvd., Gilbert, will offer several classes in the next school year that follow the format of Chandler Traditional Academies.

Knox Elementary School will require school uniforms beginning this fall. Chandler Unified School District Governing Board members voted 4-1 in favor of the requirement Wednesday night.

Administrators at the Chandler Unified School District will finally get a little more elbow room thanks to a $3.3 million renovation.

Construction is well under way in the Chandler Unified School District on a new elementary school to open in July.

Lock it or Lose it. That's the message Mesa residents will see on the side of the city's solid waste trucks riding through town, hoping to bring a simple awareness of how people can avoid property crimes.

A fifth-grader at Chandler’s Knox Elementary School died in a single vehicle accident over the weekend near Tucson, according to the Chandler Unified School District. A letter was sent home Tuesday telling Knox families that their children were informed of the death and a crisis team would be on campus, district spokesman Terry Locke said.

The Chandler Unified School District governing board has hashed out details of a proposed $91.6 million bond issue.

April 29, 2005

Elementary schools in the Chandler Unified School District will soon have security cameras. The governing board voted 2-1 on three contracts totalling $1.3 million to put a 12-camera system at each of the 29 K-6 schools. Two board members were out of town Wednesday, but there was a quorum with the three other members. Board members Bob Rice and Annette Auxier approved the measure. Board member David Evans voted against it.

The Chandler Unified School District governing board voted 5-0 Wednesday night to open The Academy at Knox Elementary School beginning with the 2011-12 school year in July. Nine empty classrooms at the school, 700 W. Orchid Lane, will be used for a self-contained gifted program (known as CATs, or Chandler Academically Talented Students) with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, mathematics and fine arts.

The Chandler Unified School District has received $320,000 through the First Things First program to provide scholarship opportunities for its preschool program, according to district spokesman Terry Locke.

Two administrators from Higley and Gilbert school districts and a Higley principal were appointed Wednesday as principals in the Chandler Unified School District.

Shea Homes and the Chandler Unified School District reached an agreement over school boundaries in the Seville community in Gilbert.

One Basha High School student was transported to a local hospital with neck pain and about 36 others suffered “minor bumps and bruises” when their school bus collided with a truck Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

Sixth-graders at Chandler’s Andersen Elementary School may attend school at the adjacent Andersen Junior High School next year.

Arizona school districts can offer bus and website space for advertising, but it appears few in the East Valley are seeing a big impact from it.

Enrollment in Chandler Unified School District is up more than 700 students from last school year, the district reported Wednesday.