<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=192888919167017&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
Tuesday,  November 19 , 2024

Linkedin Pinterest

Schools

Kindergartener Evan Salmon, center, prepares a giant snowball while Daniel Blaser sneaks up behind him with a snowball during recess at Prune Hill Elementary School on Dec. 5. There was school that day, but the Camas School District canceled 10 days of school this school year due to snow and inclement weather. The district received a waiver for four of those days.

Camas schools get waiver for 4 snow days

Kindergartener Evan Salmon, center, prepares a giant snowball while Daniel Blaser sneaks up behind him with a snowball during recess at Prune Hill Elementary School on Dec. 5. There was school that day, but the Camas School District canceled 10 days of school this school year due to snow and inclement weather. The district received a waiver for four of those days.

April 19, 2017, 9:11pm Clark County News

The Camas School District was granted a waiver for four snow days by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the district announced Tuesday. Read story

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference Thursday, March 9, 2017, about the state&#039;s response to President Donald Trump&#039;s revised travel ban in Seattle. Legal challenges against Trump&#039;s revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Ferguson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state&#039;s legal action.

After travel ban, AG Ferguson’s next fight: deceptive student-loan practices

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference Thursday, March 9, 2017, about the state&#039;s response to President Donald Trump&#039;s revised travel ban in Seattle. Legal challenges against Trump&#039;s revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Ferguson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state&#039;s legal action.

April 19, 2017, 1:30pm Northwest

He vaulted into the public’s eye in January when he challenged President Donald Trump’s travel ban, but Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says student debt is the issue that’s taken center stage in his office these days. Read story

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, visits with Kennidy Takehara, right, a lab technician in an immunology research lab at the University of Washington&#039;s UW Medicine South Lake Union Campus on April 12 in Seattle. Murray visited the lab Wednesday to discusses the potential impact to research being done there by President Donald Trump&#039;s proposed budget cuts to the National Institute of Health. (AP Photo/Ted S.

WSU Spokane researchers share Trump budget concerns with Sen. Patty Murray

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, visits with Kennidy Takehara, right, a lab technician in an immunology research lab at the University of Washington&#039;s UW Medicine South Lake Union Campus on April 12 in Seattle. Murray visited the lab Wednesday to discusses the potential impact to research being done there by President Donald Trump&#039;s proposed budget cuts to the National Institute of Health. (AP Photo/Ted S.

April 19, 2017, 9:00am Northwest

In a fourth-floor lab at Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy in Spokane, a group of six young women from at least three countries peer into genes and analyze tobacco products to find out why some people are more likely to get cancer from smoking than others. Read story

Justin Flores, 8, of Vancouver waves goodbye to his mom as he peers through a foggy bus window Thursday morning March 27, 2008. Cold weather brought a flurry of snow mixed with rain for many students who made their way to school this morning.

Vancouver Public Schools announces administrative changes

Justin Flores, 8, of Vancouver waves goodbye to his mom as he peers through a foggy bus window Thursday morning March 27, 2008. Cold weather brought a flurry of snow mixed with rain for many students who made their way to school this morning.

April 18, 2017, 1:13pm Clark County News

Vancouver Public Schools on Tuesday announced administrative changes at schools and district offices for the 2017-2018 school year. Read story

Teen in court in Mountain View High School disturbance

April 17, 2017, 7:06pm Clark County News

A 17-year-old boy appeared Monday morning in Clark County juvenile court after allegedly bringing an airsoft gun onto the grounds of Mountain View High School on Friday, prompting a brief lockdown. Read story

President Barack Obama signs the &quot;Every Student Succeeds Act,&quot; a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability, in Washington.

Absences, fitness, atmosphere — new ways to track schools

President Barack Obama signs the &quot;Every Student Succeeds Act,&quot; a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability, in Washington.

April 17, 2017, 11:09am Nation & World

How often do students miss school? Are they ready for college? Are they physically fit? Is their school a welcoming place? Read story

Woodland High School language arts teacher Jason Cowley is one of two teachers at the school who decided to go gradeless this year, doing away with letter and number grades. Instead, he and fellow language arts teacher, Aaron Blackwelder, give students feedback on their work and the students continue to improve upon their work until it meets the level of proficiency set for the assignment.

Woodland teachers rethink how they give out grades

Woodland High School language arts teacher Jason Cowley is one of two teachers at the school who decided to go gradeless this year, doing away with letter and number grades. Instead, he and fellow language arts teacher, Aaron Blackwelder, give students feedback on their work and the students continue to improve upon their work until it meets the level of proficiency set for the assignment.

April 17, 2017, 6:06am Clark County News

It took Ole Warndahl about three months to feel comfortable in his ninth-grade language arts class. Read story

Wy&#039;east seventh-graders Nicholas Murray and Brittney Meyer nervously watch teammate Zinnia Hawthorn use a prosthetic arm the three designed to compete in an object removal challenge at the Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver on Saturday.

MESA engineering competition an arms race

Wy&#039;east seventh-graders Nicholas Murray and Brittney Meyer nervously watch teammate Zinnia Hawthorn use a prosthetic arm the three designed to compete in an object removal challenge at the Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver on Saturday.

April 16, 2017, 6:05am Clark County News

On Saturday morning, a time when most adolescents would prefer to be in bed, about 100 junior and senior high school students brimming with enthusiasm and wielding prosthetic arms gathered at Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver for a regional engineering competition. Read story