EAST WENATCHEE — Community members are invited to attend either an in-person or virtual session to provide input on the search for Eastmont’s next superintendent.
SPOKANE — A Spokane elementary school teacher who is opposed to the vaccination mandate and has shared debunked claims about COVID-19 vaccines has been accused of creating a hostile work environment after she wore a mask bearing a protest symbol.
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School Board voted unanimously during a special meeting Thursday morning to allow district students to take part in a statewide student health survey.
Wenatchee Valley College student Dayne Russ, right, gets a root ball ready at an Arbor Day event planting 20 trees on Friday at the college. Arbor Day is in April but because of other events at the college around the holiday college officials decided to hold their celebration in October, according to Joan Qazi the sustainability coordinator with the college.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WENATCHEE — As of Tuesday, 92% of Wenatchee Valley College’s full-time employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while 11 employees received a medical or religious exemption and accomodations.
EDMONDS — Hundreds of students in a Snohomish County school will switch to remote learning Wednesday after 26 students tested positive for coronavirus in the last 10 days, forcing the school to shut down.
SPOKANE — When Emily Gwinn decided she wanted to get back into the workforce a year after her third child was born, one big question loomed: Who would care for her kids while she was at work?
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a proclamation recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
WENATCHEE — Powderpuff football returned to the Lee Bofto Field Thursday night after a year off due to COVID-19.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A senior school administrator in the Lone Star State was recorded telling educators that if they’re going to keep books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they must also stock material representing “opposing” views or “other perspectives.”
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Michele Sandberg is running for reelection to School Board Member Position 4 in the Wenatchee School District. Her opponent in the upcoming general election is Katherine Thomas.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Zachary Miller is running for School Board Member Director District 3 in the Cascade School District. His opponent in the upcoming general election is Cody Burgess-Bench.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Editor's note: Get to know your ballot by reading more of The Wenatchee World's election coverage at wwrld.us/2021elections.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — The Eastmont School Board has approved an agreement with East Wenatchee that provides the district with a school resource officer.
WENATCHEE — With language in a U.S. Senate bill that would provide permanent residency for undocumented immigrants in danger of being erased from the final draft, a group of community members marched Tuesday to urge Democrats to follow through with campaign promises.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board will continue with remote meetings through October following the expressed preference of several school board members.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is looking for a new executive director.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Pinnacles Prep, a public charter school in its first year of operation, will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 6 for prospective students at its campus at 504 S. Chelan Ave.
WENATCHEE — Students at Wenatchee Valley College’s Omak campus will have access to more counseling services during the next two years thanks to a $250,000 pilot grant.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
YAKIMA — Pizza day is a big deal in schools. Students look forward to sinking their teeth into hot, cheesy goodness during a break between classes.
WENATCHEE — Though Columbus Day is categorized as a federal holiday, it serves as a reminder of a much darker history as well.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee and Eastmont school districts are seeing 285 exemptions filed due to the vaccine mandate for religious or medical reasons.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School District is working hard to fill 208 job openings — more than 100 more than were open last year at this time.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — Library branches in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan and Ferry counties will be getting facelifts and other improvements in the coming years.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College has received a $226,000 grant to help homeless students over the next two years with access to everything from laundry facilities and showers to food and technology.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
SEATTLE — It wasn’t their mask mandate to make, but school officials are getting the heat all the same.
Kristin Harvey, 7, Wenatchee, practices a cheer during the Wenatchee High School Mini Cheer Camp on Thursday. She has been in dance classes for five years and decided to try cheer at the camp. Cheerleader Coach Danielle Schafer-Cloke said 160 children from kindergarten through fifth grade signed up for the camp.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will become the first state to mandate statewide COVID-19 vaccinations for schoolchildren, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Friday as a Reuters tally showed the United States topping 700,000 coronavirus deaths.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College is hosting a free financial aid night for students from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College is hosting events during Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month — Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
The Waterville Booster Club met this past Tuesday to discuss their fundraisers as well as to create a schedule for their grant application process for the current school year.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee School Board members debated returning to in-person meetings earlier this week, more than a month after a large group of unmasked people disrupted the Aug. 24 board meeting.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Kennadi Jackson throws her paper airplane into the air with other third-graders at Lee Elementary School Wednesday during a study of the Pangborn-Herndon trans-Pacific flight 90 years ago that landed above present-day East Wenatchee on Oct. 5.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee High School students were nearly banned from attending football and soccer games against Eastmont after students stormed the court Thursday to celebrate a win over Eastmont.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
COEUR d'ALENE — Rick MacLennan is out as president of North Idaho College.
WENATCHEE — The inside of the Wenatchee Public Library got its makeover. Now one is proposed for the outside.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
MOSES LAKE — Big Bend Community College on Tuesday announced Amy Parris as a new trustee, replacing Stephen McFadden, who resigned after taking a job with the Port of Pasco in the Tri-Cities. Gov. Jay Inslee confirmed the appointment last week.
Last week, the Wenatchee School Board was advised by the police department to move their meeting to an online venue due to a credible threat directed toward two school board members and the superintendent.
