Archive for August, 2009
Lincoln Health Center update
Last week I stopped by the site of the new Lincoln Health Center. The property is still under construction, but is expected to open on Sept. 8. Holly Howard was in the office when I stopped by, on the phone trying to work a glitch out with Qwest. She gave me a tour of the [...]
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Loading ...WSU learning center to close
Friday may be the last day of the Washington State University Learning Center at Walla Walla Community College. Still waiting for confirmation from WSU, and I hope to have more details on the closure for Thursday’s newspaper. What I have heard so far is that as of Monday, the learning center will close as a [...]
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Lots of opportunities this week to meet with Walla Walla public school leaders. Edison will open its doors Tuesday to members of the school board and anyone else who wants to get a walk-though of the newly constructed school. The board will take a tour of the building at 6 p.m., then head to district [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...An e-mail round-up
So every day I get about a dozen e-mails that have something or other to do with education in the country. Most of the time these are borderline spam. But occasionally the topic is interesting or specific to things happening in our local schools. Here’s a few of the items that have been neglected in [...]
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Things are going to start getting busy real quick on the education beat, starting this Friday with the release of last spring’s WASL results, and the annual Adequate Yearly Progress report. Both are being released by our state’s education agency, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. This will be the last major release of [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The catch-up game
Less than three weeks before the start of school, everyone! That may be lamentable news for our area youngsters, but luckily the first week of school has always been timed around the start of the Walla Walla County Fair. So even if the kiddies are bummed out at having to be stuck in classrooms yet [...]
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