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The Spokane Public School Board has approved new boundaries.
The Spokane Public Schools Board unanimously approved new boundaries during its Wednesday night meeting, the district’s first major boundary change in 40 years.
Spokane Public Schools new boundaries are designed to keep neighborhoods of students, and cohorts of children together during the transition from elementary to middle school to high school.
The board unanimously approved them after several weeks of delay. Some parents were concerned the model would force their families to go to a school geographically farther from their home, and some were concerned the changes were inequitable.
School Board Member Mike Wiser said the committee that developed the new lines considered both issues, and said trying to change the boundaries this late would create more issues.
There will also be more discussion and a possible vote on school boundary changes at the meeting. Author: Mia Hunt Updated: 6:00 PM PDT June 30, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane Public Schools will meet on Wednesday to vote on new mascots for North Central High School and Garry Middle School and a new name for Sheridan Elementary School.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
The new name for Sheridan Elementary School will be Francis Scott Elementary School.
Here were the three options for the new name for Sheridan Elementary and the reasons behind them.
Frances Scott
SPS said the inspiration was Spokane’s first African American female attorney, a teacher at Rogers High School for more than 30 years, a president of the Spokane Education Association and a president of the WSU Board of Regents. Scott grew up in Spokane and graduated from Whitworth College (now University) with her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. When
Gilbane Building Co. to manage construction on Rogers High School project
GILBANE BUILDING CO. will provide construction management services for the $98.8 million Rogers High School replacement in Newport. / COURTESY GILBANE BUILDING CO.
PROVIDENCE – Gilbane Building Co. announced June 28 that it will provide construction management services for the Rogers High School replacement project in Newport.
In November 2020, Newport voters overwhelmingly approved a $106.3 million school bond, $98.8 million of which will be used toward building a new Rogers High School. The current school, first built in 1957, is deemed among the most deficient schools in Rhode Island.
Gilbane said the target occupancy for the new high school is 755 students and it will also make related site improvements at Rogers’ existing campus.
Jane Pomp (Bolhouse) Connerton, 89, of Newport, Rhode Island, passed away peacefully at home on June 28, 2021, surrounded by her family. She was the wife of the late William H. Connerton Jr.
Jane was born on October 10, 1931, in Newport, RI to the late Peter Daniel Bolhouse and Gladys Estelle (Carr) Bolhouse. As a young girl she was a member of the Girl Scouts and maintained that affiliation for well over a half century, attending their annual reunions held at Camp Hoffman in South Kingstown. She also had a great love of animals and a passion for bird watching. She continued this appreciation of nature throughout her whole life, most notably, by her always having an assortment of books relating to birds on hand and a pair of binoculars at the ready whether she was sitting in her living room chair or out in her car. All her children and grandchildren had to do was describe what a bird looked like or mimic the sounds they made, and she would tell them what it was. Until the day she