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• Gardening: Students, golf courses connect for day of learning

  May 27, 2012 in Features on Page D3 There’s nothing quite like a field trip to make classroom lessons come alive. Recently, about 50 students from local schools spent a day on the beautiful grounds of the Spokane …

• Sandpoint High students vandalize school in senior prank

  May 23, 2012 in City Twenty-nine Sandpoint High School students are paying the price — in labor and sawbucks — for a senior class prank that vandalized school property. 7

• Gregoire pitches for schools

  May 18, 2012 in City on Page A5 Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire told the state’s largest teachers union that she will work to increase taxes to help the state meet its mandate to provide quality education. “I am … 1

• Education Notebook: NWC band plans spring craft fair

  May 17, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 The Northwest Christian Schools Crusader band department will hold its first spring craft fair at the High School Activity Center, 5104 E. Bernhill Road, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. …

• Redinger brings fresh direction, expectations to District 81

    May 13, 2012 in City on Page A1 FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – When people in Spokane were asked what they wanted to see in the next superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, they came up with a laundry list of … 7

• Superintendents of Spokane Public Schools through the years

  May 13, 2012 in City on Page A1 • June 1888-Feb. 1889 Bruce Wolverton • Feb. 1889-June 1889 E.C. Houston • July 1889-June 1899 David Bemiss • July 1899-June 1903 J.F. Saylor • July 1903-June 1908 J.A. Tormey …

• Gregoire’s tax support comes late

  May 11, 2012 in City on Page A5 The next Washington governor needs to find a way to raise money for schools, says the outgoing governor. There is no way, the outgoing governor says, for the state to …

• Wash. students beat national average in science

  May 10, 2012 in Region SEATTLE — Washington eighth graders did better than the national average on a science test that is given to kids across the country, but two-thirds of the middle school students … 7

• Curriculum hooks up with Trout in the Classroom

  May 6, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 Trout are spawning a watershed of educational opportunities for Spokane County kids. A thousand fertilized rainbow eggs divvied out to 10 elementary schools have hatched a semester of lessons in … 6

• Student loans 101: The interest rate uproar

  May 6, 2012 in Business on Page E1 Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree: It would be a mistake to let interest rates on student loans double in July. Especially if they’re going to be blamed … 1

• Colo. boy, 6, suspended for reciting ‘Sexy’ lyric

  May 4, 2012 in Nation/World AURORA, Colo. — A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl “I’m sexy and I know it,” … 6

• Education Notes: Ferris to perform ‘Taming of the Shrew’

  May 3, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Ferris High School drama students will perform the William Shakespeare comedy “The Taming of the Shrew” in the school’s auditorium today, Friday and May 11-12 at 7 p.m. The show …

• STEM grant to develop education

  May 3, 2012 in City on Page A6 A Washington nonprofit organization has given $220,000 to spearhead development of a local program focusing on science, technology, engineering and math education. Washington STEM, the nonprofit, also supports the creation …

• Rockin’ Art fundraiser for public schools this Friday

  May 3, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 The Spokane Public Schools Foundation will hold its annual Rockin’ Art fundraiser Friday. Works of art created by students, teachers and local artists are on display and up for purchase. …

• Schools chief gets pay hike

  April 24, 2012 in City on Page A5 The next Spokane Public Schools superintendent is expected to be paid about $17,000 more than the current district leader. The school board plans to approve Shelley Redinger’s contract at Wednesday’s … 15

• Spokane Scholars Foundation honors ‘community assets’

  April 24, 2012 in City on Page A1 After Karl Fencl learned he was being honored by Spokane Scholars Foundation in the science category, the Rogers High School senior sized up his competition for who might end up …

• Sunset Elementary opens health clinic

  April 20, 2012 in City on Page A1 When a Sunset Elementary School student fell on the playground this week, the boy walked across the parking lot to the school’s new medical clinic. He was visiting Spokane County’s … 1

• Orchard Prairie wins art, science grant

  April 19, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 When Kirsten Schierman found a small online grant for an educational project that combined art with science, the Orchard Prairie art and kindergarten teacher knew she had to apply. She …

• Tutu’s visit stirs criticism at Gonzaga

  April 19, 2012 in City on Page A1 Gonzaga University is rejecting calls by social conservatives to find a new commencement speaker because of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s support for abortion rights and gay marriage. Critics say the apartheid … 82

• Lack of emphasis on cursive has many debating

    April 15, 2012 in City on Page A1 Cursive writing, the elegant hand used to write the Constitution and other historic documents, was also the script most great-grandparents used to record their thoughts. But young people today might … 13

• Redinger chosen as new schools superintendent

  April 15, 2012 in City on Page A1 A Virginia school administrator with deep ties to Eastern Washington will be the next superintendent for Spokane Public Schools. The school board decided on Shelley Redinger Saturday morning, school officials … 16

• School finalists quizzed at forums

  April 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 Spokane Public Schools’ superintendent finalists – Shelley Redinger and Alexander Apostle – were in town this week, where community leaders, area residents and district employees grilled them about their past … 1

• Students find Western Governors University

  April 12, 2012 in City on Page A5 Flexibility, affordability and credibility were the key reasons two Spokane-area residents gave for choosing to enroll in Western Governors University Washington. But reputation was also a factor. “I spoke to … 9

• Spokane couple providing learning foundation in Malawi

  April 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Most classrooms in Spokane County look the same. Walk in and you’ll see rows of desks and chairs, a whiteboard, stacks of textbooks and cups filled with pencils. But when … 3

• State gets thumbs up on preschool, down on access

  April 10, 2012 in Region SEATTLE — Washington preschool programs that receive government dollars are among the best in the country but too few kids benefit from the $54 million the state spends on preschool … 1

• NW Today: Lawsuit gets Montana schools more funds

  April 5, 2012 in Region HELENA — Montana’s public schools will receive a $4.6 million increase in state funding for the 2012-13 school year under a settlement reached in a lawsuit filed by a coalition …

• Spokane Public Schools chief search down to 3

  April 1, 2012 in City on Page B3 After much conversation, deliberation and interviewing, Spokane Public Schools’ board has narrowed down the search for the next superintendent to three finalists. Alexander Apostle, of Missoula; Shelley Redinger, of Fredericksburg, … 6

• Higher ed called key for spreading success

  March 31, 2012 in City on Page A6 A higher-education expert kicked off the sixth annual Our Kids: Our Business campaign Friday with this observation: “You have never been more likely to die poor in this country if … 3

• Education Notebook: National honor for All Saints teacher

  March 29, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Kolleen Murray, a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at All Saints Catholic School, 3510 E. 18th Ave., recently received the 2012 Distinguished Teacher Award from the National Catholic Educational Association. In …

• School Notes: Mead dance team to compete on national stage

  March 22, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S10 The Mead High School Dance Team will put its best foot forward March 30-31 when the group heads to Anaheim, Calif., for the USA National Dance Competition. The Mead dancers …

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