Schools

Toddler hands close ups. These fingers always getting into mischief and exploring the textures and sensations of the world around them. Taken inside of a home with toys and child safe surroundings for kids of their age.

Report finds more Washington kids enter preschool developmentally behind due to pandemic

May 1, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

Just before recess, a minor scandal emerged among the students in an East Valley preschool classroom. One girl accused another student of taking her “little baby spider,” a toy spider encased in a block of resin. A teacher asked her what words the girl could use to make the other… Read story

First generation Ukrainian American Denis Zayets, second from left, and Illia Strynada (13), a refugee from Ukraine, warm up with the soccer team before a match against Washougal at Fort Vancouver High School on Thursday, April 13, 2023.

Ukrainian teens find solace in soccer in Vancouver

April 30, 2023, 6:06am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

As waves of missile strikes hit and Russian forces pounded his hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine, Illia Strynada and his family hastily packed what they could, piled into their vehicle, and frantically searched for a gas station. Read story

Woodland High School (Alisha Jucevic/The Columbian)

Woodland schools measure still too close to call

April 28, 2023, 3:00pm Clark County News

Woodland Public Schools’ replacement levy appears to still be failing by the slimmest of margins, now behind by just 32 votes, 1,990 to 2,022. The measure requires a simple majority to pass. Read story

Woodland schools measure still trailing by just dozens of votes

April 27, 2023, 6:13pm Clark County News

The Woodland Public Schools community continued to hold its breath Thursday afternoon, as another round of ballots shows that a critical funding measure still trails, now by just 34 votes. Read story

Bonneville Power Administration electrician foreman Steve Hood holds a flaming pillar of methane gas in his hand as part of a demonstration about chemical mixtures Thursday during Take Your Child To Work Day at Bonneville Power Administration's Ross Complex in Vancouver.

Tour at Bonneville Power Administration’s Ross Complex sparks kids’ imaginations

April 27, 2023, 5:27pm Business

Twenty years ago, an 8-year-old Zoe Wellschlager visited her father, John, at his job at the Bonneville Power Administration headquarters in Portland for Take Your Child to Work Day. Read story

Hockinson school board director stepping down

Hockinson School District board director Dave Olson announced his resignation Monday. Olson — a longtime member who joined the board in August 2005 — represented Hockinson’s District 3, which spans most of the district west of Northeast 182nd Avenue. Read story

Schools measures passing in Washougal, trailing in Woodland

The Washougal School District predicted big cuts to programs from athletics to arts if its operations and capital facilities and technology levies failed for a second time in 2023. Both passed in the April special election.

Funding measures for two small districts in Southwest Washington saw a mixed bag of results Tuesday, with two levies in the Washougal School District strongly leading in initial returns and a measure in Woodland Public Schools trailing by 37 votes. Read story