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38-736: In 2018, the district was awarded "4th Best School District in America" by the National Council for Home Safety and Security and "Best Public School/District" in the Best of Gilbert 2018 issue of the East Valley Tribune . As of spring 2019, thirteen GPS schools have earned the "A+ School of Excellence™ Award" from the Arizona Educational Foundation . In 1900, the first school, in Gilbert,

76-822: A daily newspaper, the Tribune resulted from the combination of local newspapers acquired by Cox Enterprises : The Tempe Daily News , the Mesa Tribune , the Gilbert Tribune , the Scottsdale Progress , and the Chandler Arizonan . Attorney Alfred P. Shewman and Judge W.D. Morton founded Mesa's first newspaper, the Evening Weekly Free Press, in 1891. In 1899, Judge W.D. Morton sold out to Shewman, who died in 1901. Frank T. Pomeroy and Harry D. Haines bought

114-418: A key company goal. "Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information", according to a 3 July 2006 article. "In some markets, Thomson was able to move past other players who were more cautious about digital conversion." In 2003,

152-633: A larger reliance on information technology services and products. On 1 January 2004, Thomson adopted a new accounting standard, which required restatement of all prior periods. The company restated its financial reports accordingly. Members of the last board of directors of Thomson were as follows: David K.R. Thomson (chairman of the board since 2002), W. Geoffrey Beattie , Richard Harrington, Ron D. Barbaro , Mary Cirillo , Robert Daleo , Steven Denning, Maureen Darkes , Roger Martin , Vance Opperman , John M. Thompson , Peter Thomson, Richard Thomson and John A. Tory . The Thomson family owned 70% of

190-520: A publicly traded company in Canada. Roy Thomson's prolific endeavours in publishing earned him the hereditary title Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1964. Thomson's interests moved beyond publishing with the creation of Thomson Travel and acquisition of Britannia Airways in 1965 and 1971, and a foray into a consortium exploring the North Sea for oil and gas. Thomson used its oil profits to buy small newspapers in

228-478: A reported $ 435 million. Prometric now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of ETS. On 15 May 2007, the Thomson Corporation reached an agreement with Reuters to combine the two companies, a deal valued at $ 17.2 billion. On 17 April 2008, the new company was created under the name of Thomson Reuters. The chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters is Jim Smith, and the chairman is David Thomson , formerly of

266-591: A result, on November 2, 2009, the East Valley Tribune announced that it would cease operations on December 31, 2009. However, a new buyer was found, and the Tribune , the Daily News-Sun , the Ahwatukee Foothills News , Glendale/Peoria Today and Surprise Today were sold to 10/13 Communications LLC, an affiliate of Boulder, Colorado-based Thirteenth Street Media. The transaction was approved by

304-674: A subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group , known as Refinitiv ), Checkpoint, EndNote (now produced by Clarivate , an independent company), Derwent World Patents Index (now produced by Clarivate), SAEGIS (now produced by Clarivate), MicroPatent , Aureka (now owned by Clarivate), Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Corporate Intelligence , InfoTrac (now owned by Cengage ), Delphion , Arco Test Prep (now owned by Cengage), Peterson's Directories (now owned by Cengage), NewsEdge , TradeWeb , Web of Science (now produced by Clarivate) and

342-403: A week on Sunday with a circulation of more than 140,000 copies and more than 405,000 weekly readers. Eighty-five percent of the newspapers are delivered directly to the driveways of East Valley families, while the remaining 15 percent are distributed at high-traffic locations and outlets. Thomson Newspapers The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It

380-695: The Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1952. He was told by the UK Government that to qualify for a peerage, in keeping with other press barons in London, he would have to reside in the UK. Accordingly, he moved to Edinburgh and invited newspaper owners to sell to him. In this expansion in the United Kingdom the first to come forward and be bought was The Scotsman in 1953. He had no experience of television but saw

418-1004: The Arden Shakespeare (now published by Bloomsbury Publishing ). Thomson formerly owned Jane's Information Group , now owned by Montagu Private Equity . These information sources are produced by the many companies of Thomson, including West Publishing , Thomson Financial , ISI (now owned by Clarivate), Thomson Gale (now owned by Cengage), Dialog Corporation (now owned by Clarivate), Brookers, Carswell , CCBN, Course Technology (now owned by Cengage), Gardiner-Caldwell, IHI, Lawbook Co, Wadsworth (now owned by Cengage), Thomson CompuMark (now owned by Clarivate) and Sweet & Maxwell . Thomson Reuters New Zealand Limited has been publishing and updating information on New Zealand law since 1910, formerly as John Friend Ltd, to Brooker and Friend Ltd, to Brookers, to Thomson Brookers'. Thomson had divested many of its traditional media assets – or combined them with digital products – and had moved toward

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456-497: The Mesa Tribune in 1986, succeeding Roger Kintzel. In December 1996, Cox Newspapers sold its newspaper holdings to Thomson Newspapers . In May 1997, under the leadership of its publisher, Karen Wittmer, all five newspapers were combined into one newspaper, The Tribune. The paper served eastern Maricopa County with a Scottsdale edition for the northern communities. In December 1997, the Daily News-Sun in Sun City, Arizona, joined

494-565: The Tribune as part of its Phoenix SMG (Strategic Marketing Group). The Ahwatukee Foothills News , which covered news on the southeastern border of Phoenix, joined in November 1998. In December 1999, The Tribune was renamed the East Valley Tribune and, in August 2000, Thomson Newspapers sold its Arizona newspaper holdings to Freedom Communications , Inc. of Irvine, California On October 6, 2008, publisher Julie Moreno announced that, as of 2009,

532-423: The Tribune scaled back its publication schedule from four days a week to three days (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday), then to two days (Wednesday and Sunday), and finally to just a Sunday Edition. In late January 2016, Scottsdale-based Times Media Group , established by entrepreneur Steve Strickbine in 1997 and the owner of 15 local community news publications including College Times , Scottsdale Airpark News and

570-522: The West Publishing Company , a legal information provider in Eagan, Minnesota . In recent years, Thomson provided much of the specialised information content the world's financial, legal, research and medical organizations rely on every day to make business-critical decisions and drive innovation. While it remained a publishing company, early and aggressive investment in electronic delivery had become

608-624: The Thomson Corporation bought the Chilton automotive assets . Also in 2003, Thomson acquired the software company Elite Information Group and medical education company Gardiner-Caldwell. Also in 2003, Thomson sold its medical magazine publishing units to Advanstar Communications. Thomson also acquired the publisher Techstreet. In 2004, Thomson acquired Tradeweb . In late 2004, the company sold its Thomson Media group to Investcorp . The B2B publishing group, which features such titles as American Banker , National Mortgage News , and The Bond Buyer ,

646-619: The Thomson Corporation. Although it was officially a Canadian company and remained Canadian owned, Thomson was run from its operational headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut , in the United States. The Thomson Corporation grew from a single Canadian newspaper, the Timmins Daily Press , acquired in 1934 by Roy Thomson (later to become 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet), into a global media concern. Thomson acquired his first non-Canadian newspaper,

684-591: The Thomson Corporation. Over the years, the company has withdrawn from its holdings in the oil and gas business, the travel industry and department stores. When Kenneth Thomson took over from his father Roy in 1976, the company was worth about $ 500 million. At Kenneth's death in June 2006, the company was valued at about $ 29.3 billion. In 1978, the acquisition of Wadsworth Publishing provided Thomson with its first entry into specialised information, college textbooks and professional books. (In 2007, Thomson Learning, including

722-771: The United States, starting with the acquisition of Brush-Moore Newspapers in 1967 for $ 72 million, at the time the largest sale of newspapers. By the end of the 1970s, Thomson Newspapers' circulation in the United States had surpassed the 1 million mark. In 1974, it was rumored to be planning a takeover of Speidel Newspapers . The Thomson Organization was reorganised into the International Thomson Organization in 1978 in order to move its operating base from Britain to Canada, so that it would not be subject to British monopolies legislation, foreign‐exchange controls and dividend limitation. The International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers merged in 1989, creating

760-477: The Wadsworth imprint, was sold and renamed as Cengage Learning .) Starting in the mid-1990s, Thomson invested further in specialised information services (but this time providing them in digital format) and began selling off its newspapers. That was about the time Richard J. Harrington, an accountant, became chief executive officer of the company. One of the first moves came when Thomson spent $ 3.4 billion to acquire

798-733: The bankruptcy judge in March 2010, as part of Freedom's reorganization process. The Tribune continued operations while the sale was pending. 10/13 Communications already owned a free-distribution weekly called the Explorer , serving Oro Valley and Marana in north suburban Tucson . In November 2010, it was announced that as a result of the sale, the Tribune's main offices, including all editorial and advertising operations, would relocate by early 2011 to office space at Fountainhead Corporate Park in Tempe, adjacent to Interstate 10 and Broadway Road . Circulation

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836-574: The company. When Kenneth Thomson died in June 2006, control of the family fortune passed on to David K.R. Thomson under a plan put together decades earlier by company founder Roy Thomson . "David, my grandson, will have to take his part in the running of the organisation and David's son, too," Roy wrote in his 1975 autobiography. "With the fortune that we will leave to them go also responsibilities. These Thomson boys that come after Ken are not going to be able, even if they want to, to shrug off these responsibilities." The Thomson family controlled

874-490: The district include: 26 elementary schools ( Pre K - 6 ); 6 junior high schools ( 7 - 8 ), 5 high schools ( 9 - 12 ), 2 Academies, 1 Global academy, and 1 Alternative Education ( 7 - 12 ). Source: East Valley Tribune The East Valley Tribune is a newspaper concentrated on cities within the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix , including Mesa , Tempe , Chandler , Gilbert , and Queen Creek . Formerly

912-571: The newspaper would cease publishing in Scottsdale and Tempe. Additionally, it would publish only four days a week in the remainder of its circulation area, although it would publish four distinct editions serving Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. More than 140 staff members' jobs were eliminated with the move. On April 20, 2009, the Tribune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting after

950-572: The next 7 years, stock was purchased by P.R. Mitten and his son, Charles until 1939 when Charles Mitten bought out his father's share. Mitten began printing the paper five days a week after World War II under the name of the Mesa Daily Tribune . In 1950 Mitten sold the paper to David W. Calvert. In 1952, the Tribune Publishing Company was incorporated. On January 26, 1956, the Mesa Daily Tribune publishing plant on Macdonald Street

988-550: The paper in 1910 and converted it into a daily publication, The Evening Press . They then sold the paper in 1911. In 1913, The Evening Press became the Mesa Daily Tribune, and in 1925, the paper was renamed the Mesa Daily Journal . The name changed again to the Daily Mesa Evening Journal in 1928. In 1932, Southside Publishing Company, a corporation of Mesa and Chandler businessmen, acquired ownership. Over

1026-572: The paper ran a five-part series on how the efforts of Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio against illegal immigrants detracted from quality of law enforcement services provided by his agency. By the time the award was announced, co-author of the series Paul Giblin had been laid off during a round of Tribune cutbacks and co-author Ryan Gabrielson left the following summer. Freedom Communications filed for Chapter 11 reorganization on September 1, 2009, in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. As

1064-570: The profits it made in the US and successfully founded Scottish Television in 1957, locating its headquarters and studios in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow . He founded the Thomson Organization in 1959. In the 1960s, Thomson's UK publishing realm expanded to include Thomson Publication (UK), a consumer magazine and book publishing house, and The Times . In 1965, Thomson Newspapers, Ltd. was formed as

1102-494: The southwest corner of Gilbert and Elliot roads. The first graduating class, consisting of 4 graduates, was in 1918. Gilbert High School has since been relocated, and the original site is now the Gilbert Public Schools district administration building. Since opening its first school in 1913, Gilbert Public Schools has grown to serve over 35,000 students at 40 schools across Gilbert, Chandler and Mesa, Arizona. Schools in

1140-418: The website Phoenix.org, acquired the East Valley Tribune and Ahwatukee Foothills News from 10/13 Communications. Times Media Group immediately assumed day-to-day operations; 10/13's other Arizona community newspapers were not included in the sale. The Daily News-Sun , Glendale/Peoria Today and Surprise Today were later sold to Independent Newspapers Inc. Today, the East Valley Tribune publishes once

1178-629: Was also a major worldwide provider of higher education textbooks, academic information solutions and reference materials. On 26 October 2006, Thomson announced the proposed sale of its Thomson Learning assets. In May 2007, Thomson Learning was acquired by Apax Partners and subsequently renamed Cengage Learning in July. The Thomson Learning brand was used to the end of August 2007. Subsequently, on 15 October 2007, Educational Testing Service (ETS) finalized acquisition of Thomson's Prometric . Thomson sold its global network of testing centres in 135 countries, for

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1216-600: Was also reinstated in Tempe and Chandler. On October 8, 2011, Terry Horne was named publisher and editor of the East Valley Tribune . In early 2012, the now-former Tribune complex at 120 W. 1st Avenue, which had been vacated by 10/13 Communications, was acquired by a private developer, extensively renovated and leased to the State of Arizona as the Mesa neighborhood offices for the Department of Economic Security . Between 2011 and 2016,

1254-607: Was built on the southwest corner of Baseline and Cooper Roads. This school was moved, in 1909, to the northeast corner of Guadalupe and Cooper Roads. It was named Highland because it was the highest land south of the Salt River. These schools were part of the Mesa Unified School District#4 . In 1913, with the completion of its first elementary school, the Gilbert School District #41 was formed. The new school

1292-506: Was destroyed by fire and opened five months later at 120 W. 1st Ave, Mesa. In 1977, Cox Enterprises of Atlanta, Georgia, purchased the Mesa Daily Tribune from Calvert. Cox Newspapers then purchased the Tempe Daily News in 1980 and the Chandler Arizonan in 1983. It started the Gilbert Tribune in 1990, and purchased the Scottsdale Progress in 1993. David C. Scott was appointed president of Cox Arizona Publications and publisher of

1330-526: Was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters . The Thomson Corporation was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science and technology research, as well as tax and accounting sectors. The company operated through five segments (2007 onwards): Thomson Financial , Thomson Healthcare , Thomson Legal, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Tax & Accounting. Until 2007, Thomson

1368-543: Was located on the corner of Elliot and Gilbert roads, and consisted of four classrooms, two offices, an auditorium and a full basement below the auditorium. In 1977, the building closed for classroom use and in 1982 it became the Gilbert Historical Museum. In 1917, an election was held "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a high school" in the recently formed Gilbert School District #41. Gilbert's first high school, Gilbert High School , opened in 1917 on

1406-647: Was renamed SourceMedia . In 2005, Thomson acquired medical education company Physicians World. In October 2006, the company confirmed it would sell the Thomson Learning market group in three parts. The first part, corporate education and training (NETg), has agreed to be sold to Skillsoft for $ 285 million. Apax announced its acquisition of Thomson's higher education business on 11 May 2007, for $ 7.5 billion in cash assets. In 2007, Thomson sold Thomson Medical Education (including Physicians' World and Gardiner-Caldwell) to private equity firm ABRY Partners. The group

1444-554: Was renamed KnowledgePoint360. Some of Thomson's brands are better known than the company name itself. Its brands include Thomson ONE , Westlaw , FindLaw , BARBRI , Pangea3 , Physician's Desk Reference (now published digitally as the Prescriber's Digital Reference ), RIA , Thomson Tax and Accounting ( tax and accounting software and services for accountants), Creative Solutions, Quickfinder, DISEASEDEX (now merged with IBM Watson Health ), DrugREAX, Medstat, Thomson First Call (now

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