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ESD 112 appoints new director for District 3

May 20, 2022, 5:34am Clark County News

Educational Service District 112 selected Heidi Rosenberg to serve as the director of District 3 on its board of directors. Rosenberg will fill the unexpired term of Steven Wrightson, who resigned last month after serving in the position for 18 years. Rosenberg, who lives in Battle Ground, will represent the… Read story

Colton McCurdy, 12, of Puyallup is all smiles while crossing the finish line during the 50-meter dash at the Washington State School for the Blind on Thursday morning. Special wires running along each lane of the track guide competitors with visual impairments from start to finish, an element not available at typical track meets.

Students glad to be back in the running at Washington State School for the Blind

Colton McCurdy, 12, of Puyallup is all smiles while crossing the finish line during the 50-meter dash at the Washington State School for the Blind on Thursday morning. Special wires running along each lane of the track guide competitors with visual impairments from start to finish, an element not available at typical track meets.

May 19, 2022, 6:29pm Clark County News

Intermittent showers couldn’t cloud high spirits at the Washington State School for the Blind’s annual track meet on Thursday in Vancouver, where more than a hundred students with visual impairments from across Washington and the Pacific Northwest competed in running, jumping, throwing and more. Read story

National Park Service reaches out to teachers

May 19, 2022, 6:03am Clark County News

The National Park Service invites local K-12 teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher program from July 10 to Aug. 20 to learn about place-based education from rangers. Read story

COVID-19 rate in Clark County schools stays high

May 18, 2022, 7:05pm Clark County Health

Clark County schools reported 536 new cases of COVID-19 since last week, continuing a similar trend that saw 560 cases the week prior. Case totals in recent weeks have risen considerably to levels not seen locally since the tail end of the omicron wave in February. Health officials have warned… Read story

Federal and state funding for the Head Start program and related groups — which provide early learning child care and intervention services to at-risk youth and their families — have had to shut down a half dozen classrooms amid staffing shortages during the pandemic.

Head Start early learning short on staff in Southwest Washington

Federal and state funding for the Head Start program and related groups — which provide early learning child care and intervention services to at-risk youth and their families — have had to shut down a half dozen classrooms amid staffing shortages during the pandemic.

May 18, 2022, 7:01pm Clark County News

For more than 50 years, the Head Start program has provided critical early-learning intervention services to millions of children and their families across the country, including thousands here in Clark County. Read story

Ground-breaking set for new Clark College site

May 17, 2022, 6:01am Clark County News

Clark College is hosting a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of its new Boschma Farms campus in Ridgefield at 2 p.m. on June 1. The final building concept for the campus is expected to cost $48 million and should be completed by the end of 2024. School officials hope that… Read story

In this photo taken Oct. 6, 2010, teacher Jamie Valadez talks in her Port Angeles High School classroom about paddling on a native canoe journey, in Port Angeles, Wash. Valadez, a member of the Klallam tribe that has lived along the nearby Elwah River for centuries, brings tribal history alive in her classroom. She says the same experience can be had in any school in America, using the ready-made Native American curricula just waiting on the Web for interested teachers.

After 7 years, Washington tribal history curriculum still not fully implemented

In this photo taken Oct. 6, 2010, teacher Jamie Valadez talks in her Port Angeles High School classroom about paddling on a native canoe journey, in Port Angeles, Wash. Valadez, a member of the Klallam tribe that has lived along the nearby Elwah River for centuries, brings tribal history alive in her classroom. She says the same experience can be had in any school in America, using the ready-made Native American curricula just waiting on the Web for interested teachers.

May 16, 2022, 6:02am Latest News

When Marjorie James was a young student, the only time she learned about Indigenous people was in lessons about the original settlers. In school, she never learned about Native leaders, healers, scientists, customs or cultures. Instead, Indigenous peoples and their unique histories were a passing footnote in her public school… Read story

The University Of Washington quad reopens in time for the cherry blossom bloom in March 2022.

Washington universities struggle to serve all their students’ mental health needs. Here’s why

The University Of Washington quad reopens in time for the cherry blossom bloom in March 2022.

May 16, 2022, 6:00am Health

David, a sophomore pre-med student at the University of Washington, was used to juggling a busy schedule: He was a wrestler, swimmer, and runner in high school and works 20 hours a week on top of a full course load. Read story