The cost to attend North Idaho College may decrease, despite a proposal to raise tuition and fees next fall.
The NIC Board of Trustees will consider a recommendation to raise tuition by $25 and student fees $21 per semester at its Wednesday meeting.
John Smith, maintenance supervisor at Post Falls schools, is overseeing the district's committment to maintaining the aging buildings. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Whiz kids
Fifth-grader Tyler Ward and his stepfather, David Mills, set up Tyler's science fair experiment. His project featured an apparatus that artifically smoked a cigarette to display the anount of residue it leaves. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Two conservative patrons are challenging moderate incumbents on the Post Falls school board in May elections.
Elsewhere in North Idaho, patrons are showing mixed interest in open school board seats.
Silver Valley schools are getting more money from the state, but it's still not enough to cover all educational expenses, school officials say.
With up-to-date financial figures in hand, school boards in Kellogg and Wallace decided Monday to run supplemental levy elections on May 2.
The continued growth in Coeur d'Alene area elementary schools has school officials engaged in its biennial dance of shuffling students.
Inevitably, the district will step on the toes of a few parents and children. The trick is to step on as few as possible.
Shipshape shore. Members of Unity Presbyterian Church joined other community groups and citizens for Saturday's cleanup project of the Black Bay Park. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review <
Inez Anderson watched the nine young dancers negotiate a complex set of moves, her hands mirroring theirs.
"I had a dream," she sang along to the music, giggling with a child who missed a beat during the practice last week.
A resolution aimed at preventing school disruptions won the unanimous approval of the Post Falls School Board on Friday.
The resolution was in reaction to a two-day student walkout at Post Falls Junior High School two weeks ago.
FOR THE RECORD: (April 7, 1995):
A Thursday photo misidentified Rich Kuck, a Coeur d'Alene attorney. Skip Kuck, a local human rights activist, was not photographed.
Jerry Moore and Skip Kuck took part in Forest Service workshop. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
All non-technical classes will be moved out of the Hedlund Building next year in the first step to solve the ongoing sick building mystery.
The North Idaho College Board of Trustees approved a plan Wednesday for the building, which has been plagued with complaints over the last few years.
Anti-tax activist Ron Rankin has launched a campaign against proposed local school district supplemental levies, saying schools don't need the money.
Rankin voiced his opposition the day after school officials in Coeur d'Alene decided to hold a May 2 election for a two-year supplemental levy for $2.97 million each year. The levy is an additional property tax to be approved by voters.
The weeklong arts celebration at North Idaho College will wind down with an array of activities Friday, from music writing to dissecting cats.
This year's Popcorn Forum, titled "An Affair with the Arts and Humanities," has brought poets, artists and musicians to campus all week.
The tenacious whooping cough bacterium is still in North Idaho, claiming three new victims within the last two weeks, health officials say.
"That's a vaccine-preventable disease that we should have better under control," said Jeannie Bok, Panhandle Health District's director of family and community health services.
Parents Inez Anderson, left, speaks to students who walked out of Post Falls Junior High School on Monday morning. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Organizers of Holy Family Catholic School have raised about $25,000 - $325,000 short of what they need to open the proposed elementary school.
But with an ambitious fund-raising drive, they still could open the private school on schedule in the fall.
The Post Falls School Board decided Monday to hold a two-year $500,000 supplemental levy election this spring and create a kindergarten center next fall.
Next year, kindergarten students will all attend the same school - the former Frederick Post Elementary School.
The Legislature has decided what it's giving schools this year, so now school districts have to decide if that's enough.
Post Falls School District is one of the earliest districts to contemplate the issue. The school board may decide tonight whether to ask voters to tax themselves an additional $450,000 for maintenance and school books.
In 1993, 9-yearold Stephanie Crane disappeared while walking home from a bowling alley in Challis, Idaho.
Earlier that year, 11-year-old Jeralee Underwood was kidnapped while walking her Pocatello newspaper route, then murdered.
Unpublished correction: The name of Higgens Point is misspelled in this story. This information is from the Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation.
1. Trailblazers. Daniel Johnson, Tommy Owen, Josh Johnson and Jennifer Johnson charge down a hill near Beacon Point on the newest section of the Centennial Trail. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
2. Kim Reisch and Scott Pickford of KRC Construction prepare to pour the cement pad for park benches along the new trail section. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Schools on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation could go from rags to riches if the National Indian Lottery survives legal challenges and generates the massive sums expected.
"If everything goes as anticipated, we are looking at a staggering sum of money," said Alfred Nomee, chairman of the tribal school board.
