The Spokane Public Schools released the findings of an investigation into an early May incident at Sacajawea Middle School when Black twin sisters were asked to clean cotton along with the other students in a social studies class exploring the industrial revolution, including use of the cotton gin.

A long-time incumbent on the Cheney School Board faces two challengers in next Tuesday’s primary.

A lack of school bus drivers has forced the Cheney School District to switch to staggered school start times beginning in the fall so the district can run fewer bus routes with the drivers it has left.

John DeForest let his natural curiosity and drive to excel take the lead while he was attending St. George’s School, harnessing both to score a perfect score on two of his International Baccalaureate exams and place in the top 17% of IB students worldwide.

Masks will be required for students, teachers and staff regardless of vaccination status in Washington state schools this fall.

Voters in the Central Valley School District will choose among three first-time candidates opposed to mask mandates in a race for school board on the Aug. 3 primary ballot.

Spokane Public Schools paid $275,000 to a student and his family involved in a 2019 excessive force incident at Ferris High School where a school resource officer pinned a student to the floor to stop a fight.

Few people have seen the spectrum of education through more lenses than Tami McCracken.

It’s been quite a year for the board of directors at Spokane Public Schools.

Hundreds of Washington high school students sent their drawings, paintings, photos and ceramics to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for its annual art contest. Nine Spokane County students were named regional winners, and two of those went on to win awards at the state level.

Reassured that equity issues will be addressed in the future, the Spokane Public Schools board agreed Wednesday night to approve a comprehensive redrawing of the district’s boundaries.

In a historic decision, the Spokane Public Schools board has renamed Sheridan Elementary School for someone who made history in her community.

Joy Chastek is 78 years old and still works up to 15 hours a day.

 As debate has swirled around the proposed new attendance boundaries of Spokane Public Schools, district staff and school board members have kept one goal at top of mind: Keeping kids from the same neighborhoods together as they move from elementary to middle to high school.

For the second time in as many years, the pandemic has derailed plans to reprise the legendary Monsters of Rock concert at Albi Stadium. “It sort of gradually went away,” Justin Kobluk, president of West Coast Entertainment, said Wednesday.

Families and students will wait at least another week – and perhaps another month or two – to learn where Spokane Public Schools will draw its new boundary lines.

It was a day the students of Finch Elementary School in northwest Spokane had been working for and looking forward to for weeks – the day principal Shane O’Doherty donned a tutu and danced down the halls.