K-12 education

May 3—It's been a rocky budget season for the Yakima School District this year. The district is making $20 million in cuts to balance its budget in light of declining enrollment and the loss of pandemic-era federal education funding. The cuts have affected 138 district employees, though many have been offered other positions in the district. Critics of the cuts have taken issue with spending ...

To mark Expo ’74’s anniversary, The Spokesman-Review, in partnership with Spokane Public Schools and Expo 50, held a writing and art contest for high school students.

The principal at Wilson Elementary School resigned 1½ months after the district placed on leave a music teacher accused of writing and sending a racist newsletter to school families.

For much of her childhood in White Salmon, Washington, Tristin Roy marked the first of May by clutching a long ribbon and twirling it around a maypole with the rest of her ballet class until an intricate weave blanketed the length of the pole.

Two local school districts have received the 2024 Purple Star Award, a recognition honoring their support and commitment to military families.

Millions of dollars are coming to rural schools and communities in Washington near national forestland.

For the second time this year, Freeman voters failed to support the school district’s $5 million capital levy.

Local fourth-graders swarmed Riverfront Park on Monday, learning the history of the area on the heels of the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74.

Something was missing in Saint 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.