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The Ridgefield School District is running a $40.5 million dollar bond — its second bond for the year. The February effort didn't pass.

Ridgefield School District gives bond measure another go

The Ridgefield School District is running a $40.5 million dollar bond — its second bond for the year. The February effort didn't pass.

July 17, 2020, 6:05pm Clark County News

Voters in the Ridgefield School District have another chance to weigh in on funding for new school construction. Read story

Trinity Breland, left, and Haydn Dorsey exchange phone numbers as Breland's bus pulls away from Covington Middle School so that the two can stay in touch on the final day of school for the 2019-2020 school year.

Report: Various measures needed as Washington schools eye reopening

Trinity Breland, left, and Haydn Dorsey exchange phone numbers as Breland's bus pulls away from Covington Middle School so that the two can stay in touch on the final day of school for the 2019-2020 school year.

July 15, 2020, 6:31pm Latest News

A new report looking at the impact of opening Washington schools in the fall says that various measures — including masks and physical distancing — may be able to ensure that sending students back to the classroom doesn’t increase transmission of the coronavirus, but only if communitywide activity of COVID-19… Read story

Sadie R. Pritchard, a former associate principal at Evergreen High School who resigned following allegations she had sex with a teenage student at the school, prepares to leave the courtroom after entering two guilty pleas Feb. 4 in Clark County Superior Court.

Former Evergreen administrator to serve 300 days of work release for sex with student

Sadie R. Pritchard, a former associate principal at Evergreen High School who resigned following allegations she had sex with a teenage student at the school, prepares to leave the courtroom after entering two guilty pleas Feb. 4 in Clark County Superior Court.

July 14, 2020, 6:14pm Clark County News

A former associate principal at Evergreen High School was sentenced Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court to 300 days on work release for having sex with a student at the school. Read story

Navraj LamiChhane, a Nepali student who graduated from WSU Vancouver and is pursuing a master's in nonprofit administration at the University of Portland, feels whipsawed over the Trump administration's contradictory decisions about whether foreign students can stay in the United States if their classes are held online due to the pandemic.

As government rescinds proposed rule, foreign students anxious

Navraj LamiChhane, a Nepali student who graduated from WSU Vancouver and is pursuing a master's in nonprofit administration at the University of Portland, feels whipsawed over the Trump administration's contradictory decisions about whether foreign students can stay in the United States if their classes are held online due to the pandemic.

July 14, 2020, 6:04pm Clark County News

Senseless anxiety: that’s the only way Navraj LamiChhane can describe his mood for the past week. Read story

Heritage High School in Vancouver.

Public Health investigating tuberculosis case at Heritage

Heritage High School in Vancouver.

July 14, 2020, 2:39pm Clark County News

Clark County Public Health is investigating an active case of tuberculosis connected to Heritage High School; the likelihood of the disease spreading is low, according to the department. Read story

Carmela Lemon is a first-grade teacher at Mill Plain Elementary School. As schools prepare to reopen in the fall, she and others are terrified about returning to school absent a treatment for the novel coronavirus. Lemon is immunocompromised and fears what kind of challenges she may face in a classroom. "I am more than willing to go back in the school when it's safe for me and the children, but we're not going to be building relationships six feet apart with masks on," Lemon said.

Amid push to reopen schools in fall, Clark County educators fear for health, safety

Carmela Lemon is a first-grade teacher at Mill Plain Elementary School. As schools prepare to reopen in the fall, she and others are terrified about returning to school absent a treatment for the novel coronavirus. Lemon is immunocompromised and fears what kind of challenges she may face in a classroom. "I am more than willing to go back in the school when it's safe for me and the children, but we're not going to be building relationships six feet apart with masks on," Lemon said.

July 14, 2020, 6:05am Clark County News

It’s been three years since first-grade teacher Carmela Lemon fell ill with a mysterious and persistent respiratory illness. Read story

More than 1,300 people, including current students, have signed a petition calling for the replacement of the chieftain mascot at Columbia River High School, decrying it as a derogatory caricature.

Petition: Replace Columbia River High School mascot

More than 1,300 people, including current students, have signed a petition calling for the replacement of the chieftain mascot at Columbia River High School, decrying it as a derogatory caricature.

July 14, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

A renewed effort to replace Columbia River High School’s chieftain mascot has garnered support from students and alumni who decry the image of a Native American as derogatory. Read story

A sign for Vancouver Public Schools Administrative Services outside VPS offices.

Clark County school districts face future amid mixed messages

A sign for Vancouver Public Schools Administrative Services outside VPS offices.

July 12, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

In the midst of increasing pressure from Washington, D.C., to reopen schools in the fall, area officials are rejecting the notion that the federal government will force districts to return to normal operations before it’s safe to do so. Read story