K-12 education

Something was missing in St. George’s School on Thursday. A lot of somethings.

Rockford voters may think they’re experiencing a case of deja vu when filling out their ballots for the special election April 23.

Four North Central High School students qualified in March to compete in the National ProStart Invitational in Baltimore. Similar to TV cooking-show pressure, they and about 400 competitors from high schools across the country will make a three-course meal in 60 minutes using only two butane burners and no running water or electricity. 

On Monday, 168 Spokane-area high school seniors walked into the Spokane Convention Center. That evening, 24 of them walked out at least $1,000 richer.

Liberty Lake artist and dancer Sindhu Surapaneni, now a high school freshman, has been helping her community while raising money for the homeless since she was 11. Her work and dedication have earned her the 2024 YWCA Young Woman of Achievement Award.

Rogers High School’s senior prom will be extra special this year after a national television announcement Friday featuring the northeast Spokane high school.

Finch Elementary School students called 911 for a fire, climbed out a window and stopped, dropped and rolled Wednesday afternoon.

For millennia, humans have dropped everything to witness the blackening of the sun during a solar eclipse. 

A Spokane nonprofit wants to hear from K-12 teachers about what resources they need in classrooms for students with dyslexia. Two free workshops – one in Coeur d'Alene and another in Spokane – are scheduled in April for educators to give input or ask questions about the learning disorder. The INW Dyslexia Alliance started its program, Champions for Dyslexia, to foster networks and support for educators. By fall, it will form parent-caregiver groups.

Bid farewell to the familiar rumble of a school bus engine and the subtle aroma of diesel in the air and say hello to a fleet of clean and quiet zero-emission buses.

When some kids were outside at recess without coats or gloves on chilly days, Jefferson Elementary fifth-grader Bennet Robertson took notice. She recruited her friend Frida Sanchez to help her create a Coat Cart to provide warm clothing that students could borrow to go outside and play.

What weighed heaviest on the minds of voters who turned down Spokane Public Schools’ bond proposal in February? Property values and inflation.

A heaping cupful of dry oats, a scoop each of cinnamon and sugar and a spoonful of dried apple bits – those were the components Shadle students poured into pouches to create instant breakfasts for donation at a two-day service event hosted in the school’s gym Wednesday and Thursday.

The music teacher at Wilson Elementary School has been replaced at least through the end of the year after she was accused of writing a racist item in the school newsletter.

At the start of track practice Monday, volunteer distance coach Mike Hadway taught his team at Lewis and Clark High School how to monitor their own pulse while running. He instructed them to press their pointer and middle fingers against their windpipe until they could feel the blood pumping.

Jurors, attorneys, defendants and witnesses filed into a Spokane County Courtroom Wednesday morning with one key difference from the usual courthouse crowd: They were all in the third grade.

Darren Cromeenes, vice principal at Holmes Elementary, has been getting his haircuts at the Man Shop for years. Now, dozens of his students have gotten Man Shop cuts as well.

About 50 students walked out of class Tuesday at Priest River Junior High School over alleged threats from another student.