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News >  K-12 education

After levies pass, but bonds fail, districts like Spokane consider next steps

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 15, 2024

Editors note: The headline appearing with this story in Thursday's print edition contained an error. The headline should have stated "Spokane schools bond fails. What’s next?"

News >  K-12 education

Spokane County voters reject school bonds, but give backing to levies

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 14, 2024

For the first time in more than 50 years, Spokane voters chose to fail a Spokane Public Schools bond.

News >  Spokane

Want a quick and easy grocery shopping trip in Spokane? Go during the Super Bowl

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 11, 2024

On Super Bowl Sunday, over 100 million people tuned in to watch the traditional pageantry – gathered in their living rooms to day-drink and yell at their TVs, rooting for their red-and-yellow colored team of choice.

News >  K-12 education

Spokane Public Schools tax asks would continue extracurriculars, fund major projects at 10 schools

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 11, 2024

Spokane Public Schools is asking voters for a levy and bond on February ballots, as part of a decadeslong cycle to maintain 57 facilities serving more than 29,000 students.

News >  K-12 education

Great Northern School District seeks $840,000 levy

Tue., Feb. 6, 2024

Great Northern School District is seeking voters’ approval on property tax collections to pay for staff and school equipment for the 40 students in the district.

News >  K-12 education

Here’s what’s up for a vote with the Medical Lake School District’s two proposed levies totaling $8.2 million

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 7, 2024

The Medical Lake School District is asking voters to approve renewals of their two levies, totaling over $8.2 million in three years of property tax collections.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

One injured in impaired driving collision on state Route 28

UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 4, 2024

A 31-year-old man from Moses Lake was injured in a vehicle collision with an 18-year-old Brewster man who was driving impaired.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

One dead, others fled in hit-and-run in Grant County

UPDATED: Mon., Feb. 5, 2024

A 36-year-old Moses Lake man died early Sunday in a hit-and-run collision on state Route 17, three miles northwest of Warden.

A&E >  Northwest Passages

‘I thought of my grandmothers’: Students celebrate Black joy in third annual Black Voices Symposium

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 8, 2024

In kitchens, in Michael Jackson’s “Rock with You,” in turtles, in deepest failures. These are some of the places students from the Spokane area encounter Black joy, as they shared at Thursday night’s Black Voices Symposium Northwest Passages event.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Shadle Park High School student stabbed in restroom

UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 1, 2024

A Shadle Park High School student is hospitalized after she was stabbed Thursday morning by another girl in a school bathroom.

News >  WA Government

Schools in Washington are required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily. A new bill would make sure students actually understand what it means

Wed., Jan. 31, 2024

Across the nation, school children share the ritual of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before class as they have done for decades, likely as long as anyone alive today can remember.

News >  K-12 education

Spokane Public Schools to convert high school tennis courts into pickleball courts

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 30, 2024

Fans of Washington’s official sport, rejoice: More pickleball courts are coming your way this summer.

News >  K-12 education

Reardan-Edwall school district seeks to renew $6 million levy as alternative to ‘drastic cuts to staff’

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 30, 2024

Reardan-Edwall schools are seeking renewals of property tax collections that fund staff, extracurriculars and school safety essential to school operations.

News >  K-12 education

Washington Legislature considers paying for vape detectors in schools, but do they deter vaping?

UPDATED: Thu., July 11, 2024

Nearly every time Lewis and Clark junior Olive Pete uses the restroom for its intended purpose, a peer is in the next stall vaping, blowing clouds of nicotine-laced tutti frutti vapor.

News >  K-12 education

Tough cell: Washington Legislature considers bill to restrict phone use in schools, but students say current rules often aren’t enforced

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 30, 2024

OLYMPIA– While Mt. Spokane senior Eric Agius sits in class, listening to instruction from his teacher, he notices many of his peers scrolling away on their devices.

News >  WA Government

Spokane-area legislators give the red card to angry spectators with bill that would make threatening a referee a felony

Fri., Jan. 26, 2024

OLYMPIA – When he was in eighth grade, Bob West’s teacher handed him a whistle.

News >  K-12 education

Washington Legislature considers funding more dual-language programs in schools

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 23, 2024

OLYMPIA – Washington schools could get multi-lingual if the Legislature passes a bill heard in a House of Representatives committee Monday.

News >  Higher education

‘Life-changing situation:’ WSU graduate students secure tentative contract with wage boost as more students nationally consider unionization

Sun., Jan. 21, 2024

A major salary boost is on the horizon for thousands of Washington State University graduate students who teach classes and conduct research.

News >  K-12 education

Riverside school district seeking $73 million bond and $10.8 million levy

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 17, 2024

Voters in northern Spokane County will face two tax proposals from Riverside School District on February ballots: a $10.8 million levy and a $73 million bond.

News >  Weather

Snow expected in Spokane beginning Tuesday

UPDATED: Sun., Jan. 14, 2024

Heavy snow is expected for the Spokane area this week during an unseasonably dry winter, according to the National Weather Service.

News >  Weather

Avista advises customers they can resume normal energy usage amid Spokane cold snap

UPDATED: Sun., Jan. 14, 2024

Two days after warning of potential supply problems, Avista advised customers Sunday morning that they could resume regular energy use.

News >  K-12 education

‘Exponential change brought to life’: How educators are using artificial intelligence to teach

Sun., Jan. 7, 2024

Seemingly overnight, artificial intelligence, or AI, was everywhere.

News >  Sci/Tech

What is AI?

Sun., Jan. 7, 2024

Artificial intelligence, abbreviated AI, is a technology in which computers simulate human patterns of speech and thought, generally by combing through content found online. The systems take in and analyze large amounts of this data for patterns, and in this way, can generate text mimicking that of a person’s, create images that mirror those created organically or produce other types of media based on online content.

News >  K-12 education

East Valley School District adding mental health screenings and counseling

Fri., Jan. 5, 2024

East Valley High School is implementing a mental health initiative that seeks to provide immediate intervention to its most at-risk students.

News >  Weather

Ski areas adjust to significantly slashed snowpack on regional mountaintops

Tue., Jan. 2, 2024

Low precipitation this season has led to weak snowpack on regional mountaintops . And with the lack of fresh powder, skiers aren’t flocking to the slopes as they historically do.