Starting February 20, Community Transit will be cutting 20 percent of its bus service by adjusting all local routes and reducing frequency of buses. These service changes will likely impact all MTHS students who ride Community Transit. Here are some major route adjustments around MTHS: Route 112: The bus route that directly serves MTHS will be [...]
New plans are coming in from all different angles on how to deal with the problems communities face with funding schools and public education. With students already feeling new pressures of having to pay for printing, why would we want to stress more students with additional teacher pay cuts, possible larger class sizes, and losing [...]
The renovation of the Lynnwood Recreation Center has been underway for some time now, but do residents really know all the things affected by the money spent? The Recreation Center plans began in July 2007. There were 15 community meetings, and there has been a high amount of community support. The largest single capital project [...]
For the past couple of years at around this same time of the school year, we have had the difficult challenge of creating a school program that operates on less funding than we had the year before. This year is no different. Again, we are faced with some significant challenges in funding that will have [...]
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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