New: Aug. 13, 1:56 p.m.
Despite the uncertain economy, Lake Washington School District escaped having to lay off employees or cut programs next year.
The district’s board unanimously passed the $418 million budget for the 2010-2011 school year, with drops in federal stimulus dollars and several state programs being offset by an increase in per-capita state dollars and a small increase in taxpayer’s local levy rate. Read more
New: August 4, 10:50 a.m.
Taxpayers in the Lake Washington School District have a chance to weigh in on the 2010-2011 budget at the district’s Aug. 9 meeting.
Read moreIt’s official. Washington is out of the running for the Race to the Top federal education grant program.
On July 27, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced 19 states as finalists advancing to the next round. Washington was not among them.
Race to the Top is an incentive-based grant program that asked states to submit bold education reform packages addressing assessment, teaching standards and professional development, early childhood education, increasing graduation rates and requirements, and closing the achievement gap.
Read moreNew: July 9, 1:26 p.m.
It may not be waiting with bated breath like some landowners and developers, but the Lake Washington School District has an interest in the zoning and development regulations of Town Center.
The district owns a little more than 15 acres in the northeast of the proposed downtown development, just north of the entrance to Eastside Catholic off of 228th Avenue Southeast. The land was purchased in 1992 for around $785,000 with an eye toward building a school there. It is currently valued at more than $2.6 million, according to tax records from the King County Assessor’s Office.
Read moreState Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments June 22 from state and school district officials regarding how special education is funded statewide.
The 12-member School Districts’ Alliance for Adequate Funding of Special Education, a group that includes the Issaquah and Lake Washington school districts, calls into question how special education is funded.
Read moreThe Lake Washington School District was recently named to a list of King County’s best workplaces for recycling and waste reduction, according to a district press release.
It is one of 75 businesses and organizations that made the list. The county invited local groups to apply for the program in the spring, according to the release. Organizations are selected based on how they increased recycling and reduced waste.
Read moreNew: June 25, 2:58 p.m.
The Lake Washington School District managed to avoid making steep cuts to this year’s proposed budget, but they are likely coming, said Barbara Posthumus, the district’s director of Business Services.
This year represents the final year of federal stimulus money coming to the district. As that funding winds down and the economy doesn’t pick up, hard choices will come before the School Board. Read more
A state audit found no problems with the Lake Washington School District.
Auditors examined cash receipts, district computers and other district expenses between September 2008 and August 2009.
Read moreBy Kathryn Reith
I’m perplexed by the characterization of Lake Washington School District’s move to change grade configurations as something the district has been “hinting at” in the Sammamish Review’s May 11 editorial.
Read moreSuperintendent Chip Kimball presented the Lake Washington School Board with a dramatic shift in the school structure. Kimball, repeatedly telling the board “decisions have been made,” informed the board that every school in the district will change which grades they house and that many schools in the district will see changes to the feeder patterns.
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