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Spokane Parks and Recreation, Public Schools propose new indoor tennis facility

UPDATED: Fri., July 11, 2025

Lewis and Clark High School boys tennis coach Scott Wortley knows what it’s like to grow up without the tools to practice your favorite sport.

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OpenAI and Microsoft bankroll new AI training for teachers

UPDATED: Tue., July 8, 2025

The tech industry’s campaign to embed artificial intelligence chatbots in classrooms is accelerating.

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Central Valley schools to end summer a week early in exchange for more breaks in the school year in ‘balanced calendar’ initiative

UPDATED: Fri., July 4, 2025

As kids in most schools are soaking up the fading days of their summer break, sleeping in and playing in the sun, the bell will ring a week earlier for Central Valley kids compared to years past.

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New WA school discipline rules leave families, advocates wary

UPDATED: Fri., July 4, 2025

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction adopted new student discipline rules last month, despite pushback among families and advocates who believe the new rules will send schools back in time. Advocates feel the new rules give teachers more authority to decide when to send a student out of the classroom. Some parents feel it weakens the requirement to let them know when ...

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Central Valley School District prepares for new school year with sweeping cell phone prohibition in schools

UPDATED: Tue., July 1, 2025

Central Valley students are the latest subject to a burgeoning trend of cellphone bans in schools.

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Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools

UPDATED: Mon., June 30, 2025

The “Everyone is Welcome Here” sign that sparked a viral nationwide controversy can no longer be displayed in Idaho schools, according to an Idaho attorney general’s office opinion released late Friday.

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Incumbent in Central Valley School Board election faces former conservative ally, retired teacher in sole county school board primary

Sun., June 29, 2025

In the lone school board primary in Spokane County, the race includes the incumbent, her former ally and a retired teacher looking to promote compromise in an increasingly divisive political atmosphere.

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West Valley School Board rules Spanish teacher overstepped when he read aloud the ‘N-Word’ in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, does not reinstate teacher

UPDATED: Wed., June 25, 2025

The West Valley High School Spanish teacher who read aloud the N-Word in a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” will not return to the school, the school board ruled at a crowded Wednesday morning meeting.

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Peperzak Middle School honors its 101-year-old namesake and Holocaust survivor with a dedication ceremony for a sapling from Anne Frank’s tree

UPDATED: Sun., June 22, 2025

About a hundred people gathered at Peperzak Middle School Saturday to commemorate a new addition to its exterior: a horse chestnut sapling standing a few feet tall, upheld from gusts of wind by wooden stakes and protected by a fenced barrier.

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West Valley Spanish teacher continues to defend choice to read the ‘N-Word’ in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at gathering on Juneteenth

UPDATED: Fri., June 20, 2025

The West Valley High School teacher facing contract nonrenewal for his use of the N-word in his Spanish class in April convened a group of supporters in Millwood Park Thursday to continue to defend his actions.

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Where kids can eat free in and around Spokane this summer

UPDATED: Tue., June 17, 2025

As the school year ends and with it the guarantee of breakfast and lunch for kids in Spokane, many schools become sites offering free meals for anyone 18 or younger.

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Louder lunches, passing notes, less failure to cooperate: A look at the inaugural year of cellphone bans in Spokane Public Schools

Tue., June 17, 2025

It’s a wrap for the 2024-25 school year in Spokane Public Schools, as Tuesday is the last day of instruction in a year of phone-free classrooms in the district.

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A West Valley High School Spanish teacher lost his job after he read aloud the ‘N-word’ from “To Kill a Mockingbird’

UPDATED: Mon., June 16, 2025

A West Valley High School Spanish teacher lost his job after reading a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” that contained a racial slur.

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Kids and parents compete to keep eggs alive in gravity-defying school tradition

Thu., June 12, 2025

The firefighter held up the makeshift spaceship, made of a plastic fruit container and cardboard wings that gently cradled an egg inside, 45 feet up in the air. In a moment, it would be dropped, and all of Westview Elementary would either see the yolk splatter or cheer in triumph for the unscathed eggs.

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Pierce County schools stand to lose big money under Trump’s proposed budget

UPDATED: Wed., June 11, 2025

School districts in Pierce County could lose millions of federal dollars in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Education. The document released late last month takes steps towards establishing education solely as the responsibility of the states, moving towards a promise that Trump made on the campaign trail to eliminate the Department of Education. His efforts ...

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High schoolers in Spokane Public Schools will now have to check out a laptop for school, rather than be issued one automatically

Wed., June 11, 2025

Spokane Public Schools will no longer automatically issue each high school student a personal laptop for school work, instead pivoting to a process in which students must request a computer to use for the year.

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‘That’s their future’: Elementary students consulted to help City of Spokane with urban planning project

UPDATED: Mon., June 9, 2025

Francis Scott Elementary’s fifth-grade class peered through the chain-link fence surrounding their playground Monday to get a closer look at the lot just a block north of the school.

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Class of 2025 shows increase in kids involved in extracurriculars in line with Spokane Public Schools’ efforts to engage

Sun., June 8, 2025

Some of the colorful cords that adorn the hundreds of Spokane Public Schools’ graduates this year represent their involvement in one of the school district’s 1,024 unique activities.

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Central Valley High School: Kevin Ng finds success on the pitch and in the classroom

Wed., June 4, 2025

When Kevin Ng first walked into Central Valley High School three years ago, he almost cried.

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Cheney High School: Kitana-Jolie Cano’s future is adding up nicely

Wed., June 4, 2025

A leadership class taken her sophomore year at Cheney High School changed the trajectory of Kitana-Jolie Cano’s life, inspiring her to be more involved in her school community. The high school senior now looks forward to bringing that community spirit with her to college.

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