K-12 education

Spokane Public Schools likely will ask voters to pass a property tax levy within a year.

When Emily Harris walks across the stage at graduation, she will leave behind more than a perfect GPA and the title of valedictorian.

When Salish School of Spokane Founder LaRae Wiley set out to learn the endangered indigenous language of her ancestors, she didn’t go at it alone.

The Community School has a new name, though you probably wouldn’t know it passing by the option high school off Monroe Street.

Growing up, North Central High School senior Lucy Woods experienced social anxiety. She attended the Enrichment Cooperative at Bryant two days a week in middle school, which helped her become close to a small community.

Mead School District Superintendent Travis Hanson deleted references to “race and racial targeting” from the district’s investigation into football player hazing and later “stood before the school community” and said “nothing learned during the investigation suggested racial targeting or motivations,” according to court documents filed May 11 by an attorney representing one of the football players who was hazed.

Last month, an East Valley School District bus driver topped off the 100-gallon tank with 55 gallons of diesel at the Maverick station on Pines Road in Spokane Valley. It cost the district $328.77.

As crickets chirped and promotional flags advertising new homes for sale flapped in the wind gusts Monday, construction began for a new elementary school in Airway Heights.

With the 116-year-old schoolhouse now razed, construction of a new Adams Elementary began on Thursday.

The Spokane Public Schools Board selected a construction company to lead the modernization of North Central High School as promised under the district’s $200 million bond, passed in November.

More than 100 Opportunity Elementary students will be directed to attend neighboring schools in Central Valley after an adjustment to the district’s internal boundaries.

Voters in the Nine Mile Falls School District have rejected a $6.2 million capital levy.

After a February failure, East Valley School District’s $220 million bond is faring much worse this time around.

There’s an old idiom East Valley Superintendent Brian Talbott finds himself repeating as his school district seeks property tax collections to replace two over-50-year-old schools.

With some spare wood from a Career and Technical Education class, a student at University High School made a device that changed a classmate’s life.

As the Salish School of Spokane inches towards realizing a once “pie-in-the-sky” dream, a grant from Avista Utilities is the catalyst for another.

A sea of students sporting navy blue school uniforms cheered as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took the stage at Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy Tuesday morning.

The Spokane Scholars Foundation celebrated 165 seniors, nominated by their schools for their prowess in one of six academic categories: English, fine arts, math, science, social studies and world languages.  In each category, the winner received a scholarship worth $5,000, second place $4,000, third place $3,000, fourth place $2,000 and fifth place $1,000.

Researching cancer, solving math equations at the snap of a finger, inventing a bionic arm and learning eight languages are just some of the accomplishments Spokane-area seniors were celebrated for on Monday at the annual Spokane Scholars Foundation banquet.