By Florine Gingerich The Edmonds School District is facing a budget shortfall of $2.1 million due to lower-than-expected student enrollment, the district’s director of business and finance told the Edmonds School Board during its regular meeting last week. Marla Miller told the board during the Sept. 20 meeting that the district hopes to offset at…
Wednesday marked the first day of school in the Edmonds School District students, and a highlight was the opening of the new Meadowdale Middle School, where excited students rushed through the doors to see their surroundings. The new two-story facility, which houses 750 seventh and eighth graders, includes personalized learning communities, wireless Internet, gymnasiums with…
Attention parents: The Edmonds School District has released its 2011-12 calendar. You can access it here.
The Edmonds-based Hazel Miller Foundation announced Thursday that it has awarded large grants to several civic and educational organizations, including the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce Foundation (already reported on My Edmonds News) and the Edmonds School District, as well as the Boys & Girls Club of Snohomish County, Pacific Science Center (travelling programs), and Snohomish…
Edmonds Vocational Education instructors and students held an open house in Bothell Thursday to showcase the home that they planned and built this past school year. The program is a 36-year partnership between the Edmonds School District and Lynnwood Rotary Club. Each year, a house is planned and constructed by students from Lynnwood, Meadowdale, Edmonds-Woodway,…
My Edmonds News reader Reid Larson suggested we post a link to an article in the Sunday edition of our online news partner, The Seattle Times, regarding the future of math education in Washington state. Here’s Larson’s post, with links, here: Do you have kids in the Edmonds School District? Do you care about whether…
The Sno-King School Retirees are offering four scholarships open to graduating seniors of Edmonds, Northshore and Shoreline School Districts who are planning a career in education. The scholarships are for $1,200 each, an amount that is renewable for three years as long as the student continues to meet the scholarship’s criteria of a career in…
Join Edmonds School District Superintendent Nick Brossoit for his monthly Roundtable Wednesday from noon-1 p.m. at the Educational Service Center, 20420 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. Two program topics — “Bringing the Whole Community Together to Help Kids” and AYP and Stimulus Dollars — will be included to make up for the missed Roundtable on Jan….
By Lara Alexander Kindergarten Registration! Attention parents of future kindergartners: Families with a child who will be 5 years old by August 31, 2011 are eligible to enroll in kindergarten for the 2011-12 school year and enrollment has started! You can pick up a registration packed at your neighborhood elementary school. To find your neighborhood…
A reminder that Edmonds public schools won’t hold classes Friday to allow for teacher professional development. In addition, all schools will be dismissed early today, Thursday, with elementaries out between 11 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. depending on start times and middle schools out at 11 a.m. Meadowdale High School will be dismissed at 10:20 a.m….
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Graduation rates in the Edmonds School District are at their highest levels ever, our friends at Lynnwood Today report. Six years ago, about 67.5 percent of students graduated high school. Now it’s up to 83.6 percent for on-time graduation, and 93.3 percent for students who took more than four years. District officials credit a more…
Today, Jan. 18, is Becki Bell Day in Edmonds. Edmonds Mayor Mike Cooper made the proclamation during a recognition for Bell, a paraeducator at Edmonds-Woodway High School, hosted by the Special Olympics Parent Booster Organization Monday. A Special Olympics coach for 26 years, Bell’s service was also recognized by a representative from the state Special…
By Lara Alexander Edmonds School District presents information fair, kindergarten registration Formally knows as the annual Edmonds school district information fair, the newly named Families and Communities Engaged (F.A.C.E.) event is coming up soon! Join fellow families, school staff and school board members on Saturday, Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. to noon at Lynnwood High…
By Florine Gingerich The Edmonds School Board celebrated two educators at its Dec. 14 meeting, Molly McFadden and Pandora Touart. McFadden, a Family and Consumer Science Education instructor at Lynnwood High School, is an outstanding teacher, always looking for innovative ways to engage her students. Earlier this year she earned the Ed Erickson Career and…
Idah Dilling likes to quilt. So when the 97 -year-old Shoreline woman was looking for a place to donate all the quilts she had made, she called College Place Elementary School teacher Laurie Davis, who attended her church. Davis, who teaches first grade, came up with the idea of connecting the quilts to reading, by…
This just in from the Edmonds School District: While all schools are open and operating on their regular schedules, the district has canceled all evening activities and events after school today, Monday. This applies to: – All school facilities reserved by outside groups (except childcare providers). – High school athletic practices, which will be allowed through…
The Edmonds School District will be conducting testing and holding information nights related to the district’s gifted program. Students are identified for grade school as “gifted or highly capable” through the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT6). There are also tests for students who want to enroll in the Gifted Middle School Program and the International Baccalaureate program at…
Student art projects in Edmonds School District schools often benefit from the financial support of a Visual Arts Idea Grant from Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation. Here is a list of projects for Edmonds for 2010: – Clay Projects for Maplewood K-8 and Edmonds Elementary – A Mike O’Day Mural for Maplewood K-8 – Mosaic Stepping Stones…
The Edmonds School District, together with the district-wide Special Education PTSA committee, is hosting a free community screening of the acclaimed documentary film, “Including Samuel,” Thursday, Nov. 4 from 7-9 p.m., at the Educational Service Center, 20420 68th Ave W, Lynnwood. “Including Samuel” captures the cultural and systemic barriers to inclusion of students with disabilities…
“How Do We Preserve Arts and Athletics When We Cannot Fund Basic Education?” is the topic of November’s monthly Edmonds School District Superintendent’s Roundtable program. It takes place from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3 in the Boardrooms of the Educational Service Center, 20420 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. The community is invited to…
