After casting a vote for president, governor, and state schools superintendent, voters in the West Valley School District will also be asked if they support a property tax levy to pay for remodeling and repairing school buildings.
The first day of school is momentous enough in any student’s life. It’s a day typically marked by nervous excitement to cross the threshold into a new classroom where they’ll spend 180 days of their lives.
School districts across Washington should work with their communities over the next year to update policies for limiting cellphones during instructional time, according to guidance published Wednesday by the state superintendent’s office.
Spokane Public Schools approved a $590 million general budget at its Wednesday board meeting, contracting to brace for the sunset of COVID-era federal support but cutting no programs or staff.
An extracurricular donation fund collected more than four times as much as another fund for general education in West Bonner School District this summer amid a major budget shortfall.
If they strike, Cheney teachers could face lawsuits and would be barred from entering their school while on strike, the Cheney School Board determined in a resolution passed Wednesday night.
Cheney Public Schools and the teacher’s union have yet to come to a tentative agreement on a new contract, bringing the union’s vote to strike on the first day of school if an agreement is not met.
Cheney teachers will strike when school starts Aug. 27 if the union and school district don’t reach an agreement on their new contract by then, the teachers’ union membership voted at a meeting Tuesday night.
A mass of red-clad educators congregated in front of Cheney Middle School on Wednesday, marching and chanting in support of their union representatives inside the school negotiating a new contract with representatives from the school district.
In 1967, answering machines, athletic bras and automatic car windows debuted. Jimi Hendrix performed at the first Monterey Pop Festival and Aretha Franklin released her enduring hit “Respect.”
Students, bid farewell to scrolling Tiktok in trigonometry, quit Snapchatting in social studies – and you can forget about posting to your Instagram story in intermediate ceramics.
The Sunnyside School District will change how it elects school board members as part of a legal settlement designed to better represent the area’s large Latino population.
