Encouraged by falling COVID-19 metrics, the Central Valley School District will expand in-person learning for all students who want it to twice a week beginning March 1.

People were often stuck at home in 2020 as the pandemic forced adults to work from home and children to do virtual online learning. With few places to go, books became an important way to escape for a little while.

In a decision that could affect thousands of children and their families, the Spokane Public Schools board gave preliminary approval Wednesday night to a plan that limits how long children will be able to remain at their current building if boundary changes place them in another school.

The Monsters of Rock reunion tour is off to an encouraging start. Indeed, Wednesday night’s special meeting of the Spokane Public Schools board was a reunion in itself, with many of the same faces. “We’re back!” said Justin Kobluk of West Coast Entertainment.

School districts in Kootenai County have a welcome message to taxpayers ahead of next month’s levy elections: Your taxes won’t be going up.

OLYMPIA – Washington is expanding its COVID-19 testing program to include about 50 more school districts, an effort to get kids back in schools quickly, Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday.

With the Centers for Disease Control suggesting new guidelines for reopening schools, lawmakers of both parties are calling on the state to revise its vaccine priorities to allow teachers got be vaccinated.

Buoyed by lower COVID-19 metrics, Spokane Public Schools is continuing to move forward on its reopening plans.

How can educators cause enough "peaceful discomfort" for students to acknowledge the need for change and become more accepting and inclusive?

Horizon Middle School was completely gutted and remodeled, opening as scheduled at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. But with a global pandemic in full swing, almost no one was there to see the newly finished building and the district wasn’t able to host its usual open house to show it off to the community.

As the levy election results came through Tuesday night, school districts in Spokane County didn’t celebrate.

Most school districts in Spokane County got the benefit of the doubt Tuesday night.