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News >  Spokane

Smaller class sizes still popular idea in Washington, poll says

OLYMPIA – Legislative Republicans were confident Tuesday that voters would back away from last year’s class-size initiative if given the chance this fall, even though a new poll suggests the idea remains popular. Survey results released Tuesday by The Elway Poll said the concept of smaller classes across the board remains popular. The company asked some 500 voters around the state if they would support what seems to be the Legislature’s preferred alternative – limiting reductions to kindergarten through third grade, rather than making them in all grades – and 53 percent said the Legislature should find a way to reduce all class sizes. Only 36 percent said they favor the K-3 option in the poll with a margin of error of 4.5 percent.
News >  Spokane

Nine Mile Falls, Cheney school districts try again on bonds

Voters in the Cheney and Nine Mile Falls school districts will be asked a second time to approve construction bonds for major renovations in their high schools. Both districts proposed bonds in the February election. Cheney School District fell 2 percentage points short of the 60 percent needed for approval. Nine Mile Falls School District was more than 7 percentage points below the required supermajority.
News >  Spokane

Supreme Court rules against Spokane teachers on records requests

SEATTLE – The Washington Supreme Court said Thursday that public employees don’t have a right to privacy about the fact that they’re being investigated. The ruling came after two teachers with the Spokane Public Schools, Christopher Katke and Anthony Predisik, sought to have their names redacted on documents released under a 2012 public records request from The Spokesman-Review and KREM2.
News >  Spokane

Head Start marks 50 years of lessons

Small lessons learned early helped three Spokane-area residents succeed. The three are graduates of Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income children that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
News >  Pacific NW

Washington teachers union opposes bill tying evaluations to test scores

OLYMPIA – Members of Washington’s largest teachers union gathered on the Capitol campus Monday to oppose a bill that would tie teacher evaluations – and, potentially, salaries – to student test scores. The Washington Education Association opposed Senate Bill 5748, an attempt to win back control of federal funding granted under the No Child Left Behind Act. Because the state failed to meet the requirements of that law, that student achievement be considered in teacher evaluations, school districts lost the power to decide how they spend roughly $40 million for disadvantaged students.
News >  Idaho

Idaho teachers get pay boost

BOISE – Idaho lawmakers set a $1.48 billion public school budget on Friday, matching Gov. Butch Otter’s call for a 7.4 percent increase and fully funding the first year of a five-year plan to boost Idaho teachers’ salaries. Two Democrats on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee pushed for a larger boost, saying that because of big growth in its student population, Idaho still isn’t increasing school funding to where it was in 2009.
News >  Spokane

Valley Tech nurtures curiosity at STEM camps for kids

The wiggling stops and their attention narrows. In almost no time, fourth-graders are identifying human bones, building circuit boards and coding video games. “If they taught this in school, I’d be listening more,” Adams Elementary School student Logan Sloane said.
News >  Spokane

Spokane’s On Track Academy fights poverty with education

Spokane students in a program for would-be high school dropouts groaned with disbelief on Thursday when they learned they’ve been labeled based on their socioeconomic status. Close to 75 percent of On Track Academy students live in poverty. Teens in the program designed to help students catch up on credits so they can graduate on time were told that growing up poor often means they are dumber, won’t go to college and are more likely to die young.
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