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Crestline Elementary School first-grader Avaya Lagers asks high school students who inspires them to make change during their visit to the Vancouver elementary school last week.

Crestline first-graders interview Fort Vancouver teens, talk about power of change

May 7, 2019, 6:01am Clark County News

Photos of famous faces adorn the back wall of Lynelle Gamage’s first-grade classroom at Crestline Elementary School: Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Read story

Superintendent Steve Webb and Board President Rosemary Fryer begin the Vancouver Public Schools board meeting in August 2018.

Vancouver Public Schools seeks community input on budget cuts

May 6, 2019, 8:08pm Clark County News

Vancouver Public Schools has scaled back its proposed budget cuts in light of new state money, but the 23,000-student school district is still planning for an $8 million budget deficit. Read story

Tracie Barrows, left, a school psychologist in Evergreen Public Schools, and Caressa Milgrove, a mother of two young boys in the school district, announced their candidacies over the weekend.

Two more vie for Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors seats

May 5, 2019, 9:50pm Clark County News

Two more candidates have declared they’re running for the Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors, adding to a fuller-than-usual slate of candidates for the unpaid positions. Read story

Roseanna Camacho, of Graham, fights back tears as she is presented with the College of Nursing Outstanding RN-BSN Student award by Linda Eddy, left, Academic Director and Associate Dean for the College of Nursing, and Vicki Denson, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant RN-BSN Director, during Washington State University Vancouver graduation ceremony at Sunlight Supply Amphitheater. “When you are a nurse, you are always giving, so to just get noticed for who you are is so amazing,” Camacho said about her award.

A hopeful send-off for WSUV’s class of 2019

May 4, 2019, 9:09pm Clark County News

RIDGEFIELD -- Nothing is more hopeful than a graduation ceremony. On Saturday, Washington State University Vancouver graduating senior and commencement speaker Ian Muck told his own "peculiar," true-life tale about never giving up hope. Read story

Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary fifth-graders Uriah Carlston, left, and Jonathan Suhajda work with volunteer Luke Loeffler on a CAD 3D-modeling program during the makerspace program at the school in Vancouver. The program brings in volunteers with different high-tech skills to share their knowledge with the students.

Makerspace draws a crowd at Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary

May 4, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

A stream of fourth-graders poured into the library at Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary like water spreading into the nooks and crannies of a large — yet highly educational — reservoir. Read story

Schools

Crestline first-graders interview Fort Vancouver teens, talk about power of change

Vancouver Public Schools seeks community input on budget cuts

Two more vie for Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors seats

A hopeful send-off for WSUV’s class of 2019

Makerspace draws a crowd at Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary

3 school districts’ operations levies OK’d; Hockinson technology levy fails

Battle Ground High to host annual car show

Organizations to receive surplus C-Vans