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TODAY 11.18 Community Coffee Hour — 10:30-11:30 a.m., Bovill Community Library, 310 First Ave., Bovill. Moscow Welcome Table — 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Great Room, 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow. Free community dinner. Reservations: call or text (208) 298-9020. Comedy Night — 8 p.m., Etsi Bravo, 215 E. Main St., Pullman. Seattle-based … Read More
The boys kicked the dead tree, tempting the 90-foot widow-maker with each stomp, caught in the exuberance of outdoor adventure. They were deep in the backcountry of Idaho, north of Priest Lake and 3 1/2 miles from the nearest forest service road, a bumpy affair miles from the closest town. They were collecting firewood. For … Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. – There’s some good news for parents across Spokane who are looking to get their kids into the city’s largest charter school. Spokane International Academy is getting ready to expand. If you ask the teachers, parents, and kids at SIA, they’ll tell you, this is an entirely different kind of school. Students spend … Read More
Hundreds of kids are on the waiting list to gain admission to Spokane International Academy, which is no surprise to the students and teachers in the city’s largest charter school. In Ashley Peak’s eighth-grade class, students are writing well-researched letters to The Spokesman-Review about the worldwide refugee crisis. Students in every grade are taking four … Read More
These are exciting times for charter schools. Spokane International Academy is preparing for a major expansion next year. Innovation High School won a nationwide STEM contest, and along with its sister school, PRIDE Prep, has a long waiting list. Next fall, downtown Spokane will be home to Lumen High School, a charter school for teenage parents … Read More
By Louis Guiden, WA Charters 2019 Aspiring Leader A Louisiana native, I’ve been in Seattle for 26 years. I came to the Northwest hoping to escape some of the realities of the South. I didn’t want to be held down by the racism I experienced growing up. I had dreams of attending a historically black … Read More
By Karla Soto Mullins I was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, the fifth of eight children. My mother became a widow at a very young age, and when I was four years old, she had the opportunity to come to the United States so that she could provide a better life for us. However, it … Read More
By Karla Soto Mullins, WA Charters 2019 Aspiring Leader I know first-hand that our country’s educational systems are profoundly inequitable. My own education was defined by inequities until I had the opportunity to attend a charter high school. That experience was truly life-changing. Because of my own charter school experience, when I heard that there … Read More
Last month, Impact Public Schools, Washington state’s first “homegrown” charter public school network, released 2018-19 academic results for its flagship elementary school – Impact | Puget Sound Elementary, in Tukwila. Impact | PSE launched in August 2018, with 178 kindergarten and first grade scholars, and a strong waiting list. Academic and demographic data from the … Read More
For Immediate Release: September 24, 2019 Contact: Maggie Meyers at maggie@wacharters.org or (724) 263-9826 Funds will support new, innovative school models, and replication and expansion of high-performing charters statewide Seattle, WA—The Washington State Charter Schools Association (WA Charters) was recently awarded a federal grant through the Charter School Program (CSP) Grants to State Entities grant, … Read More