Word of possible cutbacks in nursing positions in the Mesa Unified School District has some parents anxious. "My daughter is sick all the time," said Mesa parent Kimela York. "She could die if no one's there to help her at school."

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.

August 12, 2004

Mesa Desert Ridge High School and Gilbert Highland High School have combined efforts with the Arizona High School/College Relations Council to present information to students and parents about community college and university programs available throughout Arizona.

The Mesa Unified School District Governing Board approved a new evaluation system for teachers and principals at its meeting last week.

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Hattie Harris brought her four children out Thursday to eat a free lunch and learn about a police motorcycle at Harris Elementary School in Mesa.

Nine East Valley elementary schools will receive $1.7 million to help ensure that children are reading by the end of third grade.

The Mesa Unified School District’s elementary art specialist is working with Mesa Sister Cities on an art exchange project involving countries from around the globe. Each of Scott Krenytzky’s 1,200 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students from Keller, Whitman, Whittier and Holmes elementary schools produced Arizona desert landscapes in hopes of being one of the 100 selected for the exchange. This art will be on display in March in the historic Irving School, 155 N. Center St.

March 3, 2005

Following a chase and foot pursuit, authorities arrested a 20-year-old for speeding about 100 mph during rush hour Monday morning.

“This is My Mesa” is the theme of the campaign to get citizen input, as required by state law, for the city's General Plan Update. Mesa will hold a series of community workshops during late March and early April. The workshops use the iMesa village concept by inviting people to look forward almost 30 years to 2040 and imagine the type of community they would like to have.

About 600 elementary students stay after school twice a week in Mesa to practice math. And not as a punishment.

Police have identified a woman who was killed after the pickup truck she was driving late Sunday collided with another vehicle, also leaving her male passenger dead and injuring her two children, one critically.

A few toy cars, a couple of dolls, games, balls — even a bicycle — filled an old fire truck outside a Mesa store.

Rebekah Hansen's team is fighting a battle. "Rebekah's Warriors" are fighting a disease.

The Scottsdale developers of a $250 million water park resort proposed at Mesa’s Riverview area revealed some details of the one-of-a-kind attraction at a neighborhood meeting Monday — an effort to gather support for a project likely headed to the November ballot.

Mesa has fielded offers from an auto mall developer who wants to build at the Riverview Softball Complex located in west Mesa, city officials said.

Mesa has fielded offers from an auto mall developer who wants to build at the Riverview Softball Complex located in west Mesa, city officials said.