Staff mini-eds
Can you remember 210 names? This year students and teachers are subjected to class sizes as large as 35 in English classes and up to 43 in P.E. classes. That’s right, classes could get even more chaotic around here. One positive is that the best learning is surely done when it is your day to [...]
Student rights are in jeopardy
On May 29, 2008, Avery Doninger of Lewis Mills High School filed an injunction to stop school administrators from removing her from running for senior class secretary because she wrote that the school superintendent was a “douche bag” on a live journal blog. Judge Sonia Sotomayor joined in a ruling to deny this injunction. The [...]
Fall Sports at a glance
Football: Coach Outlook: “We have a lot of experience coming back this year. Won a few games we weren’t supposed to win last year… we’ll come back and surprise some people … [We’ll] be a year older.” -Tony Umayam Player Outlook: “I think we’ll do pretty good if we play our hardest and don’t have any [...]
Should I stay in or go out?
When the day is done or the weekend has come, the next concern is always how to spend free time. We know that some people like to go out and some people like to stay in, so we have compiled the best list of movies coming out, movies out on DVD, books, video games, restaurants, [...]
WASL requirements continue to evolve
Starting in 2009 the WASL has been changed to the OSPI Assessment. Part of the OSPI Assessment is that students, grades 3-8, will be taking the Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) while students, grades 9 – 12, will now be taking the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE). To earn a high school diploma within the [...]
Healthcare reform
The Edmonds Woodway High School gymnasium overflowed with disorder and angry controversy on Aug. 30 until attendants were brought together with a national symbol of unity: “A Martha Lake Elementary student will now lead us in the pledge of allegiance,” said Congressman Jay Inslee. The recital of the Pledge kicked off Inslee’s second of two [...]
Seattle light rail
An extensive light rail system has been a long time coming in Seattle, but it seems the new millennium has finally ushered in some action out of the political quagmire that has surrounded public transit in our fair city.In the summer of 2003, Sound Transit opened a line of passenger trains that connected Downtown [...]
Terrace Turns 50
This school year marks Mountlake Terrace High School’s 50th anniversary. Fromdeaths to national championships, from international trips to a Homecoming assembly riot, Terrace has been through quite a lot. Even the campus itself went from falling apart to a “new state of the art school” 18 years ago. Stories from the past may have been buried and forgotten, [...]
Bus cuts
Starting in September 2009 the Edmonds School District will no longer be providing transportation to students who live within a 1-miles radius of their respective schools. This change, inspired by the $11.5 million worth of reductions the District was forced to make this August, cut $500,000 from the general budget. Transportation funds are being cut [...]
$100K slashed from building budget
Due to the financial downwards spiral Washington has recently taken, the Edmonds School District was forced to cut $11.5 million from its overall budget over the summer. In order to keep cuts from affecting students directly, each school has had to decrease their annual expenditures by 66 percent- from $150,000 to $50,000. “The amount of [...]
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