FYI: Your Schools
Published 10:56 pm Monday, June 25, 2007
The word from: Edmonds-Woodway High School
“Finals started (last week). We get out Monday (yesterday). … I’m going to Peru. We leave on Tuesday with two Spanish teachers. We are going to Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu.”
Kimrey Van Perre, 11th grade
New Snohomish high gets mascot, colors
Glacier Peak High School won’t open until fall of 2008, but it already has its mascot and school colors.
The school nickname will be the Grizzlies and its colors are navy blue and white with silver as an accent color.
Principal Jim Dean met with students at Valley View Middle School and Snohomish Freshman Campus earlier this month to brainstorm ideas.
During the week of June 11-15, students at those schools voted for their favorites.
Everett School District names new principals
The Everett School District is greeting new principals for three schools.
Concie Pedroza will replace Toby Brenner at Jefferson Elementary School. Brenner has accepted an elementary principal position in the Lake Washington School District.
Pedroza has been the assistant principal at both Emerson and Hawthorne elementary schools for the last year. Before coming to Everett, she was an elementary and bilingual teacher in Seattle.
Garfield Elementary School will welcome Shannon Arnim, who has both elementary and middle school administrative experience in the Shoreline and Franklin Pierce school districts.
Current principal Janet Gillingham is heading to Heatherwood Middle School this fall.
Sara Hahn will replace Betty Cobbs as principal at Hawthorne Elementary School. Cobbs is taking a central office position in human resources.
Hahn has been a principal for five years at an Oregon elementary school in Salem-Keizer Public Schools that has a schoolwide bilingual Spanish program.
Cedarcrest School gets a new principal
Cedarcrest School in Marysville has a new principal.
Sheila Gerrish will begin July 1. She replaces Susan Bell, who has taken an assistant superintendent post in Eastern Washington.
She has been an assistant principal for the last six years in Anacortes and more recently in Ferndale.
“She has a strong student focus, a strong background in instruction, and her work with staff resulted in the middle school where she worked in being named a ‘Blue Ribbon School’ by the federal government,” said Gail Miller, the district’s assistant superintendent.
Three local seats on the ballot for ESD board
Terms for three local members of the Educational Service District 189 board of directors are expiring.
Those interested can apply for an October election.
The service district serves 35 school districts and several private schools in Snohomish, Island, San Juan, Skagit and Whatcom counties.
* Claudia Talmadge currently serves in the Position 4 seat, which represents Mukilteo, Coupeville, Oak Harbor and South Whidbey school districts.
* Richard Post currently serves in the Position 6 seat, which represents Arlington, Darrington and Lakewood.
* Gordon Griggs currently serves in the Position 8 seat, which represents Edmonds and Mukilteo.
ESD board members serve four-year terms and are elected by the members of local district school boards.
Declaration of candidacy forms may be obtained after Aug. 20 from the state superintendent’s office – call 360-725-6133 – or any ESD office.
Declarations of candidacy and optional biographical data must be filed with the state administrative resources office between Sept. 1 and Sept. 16. Voting by ballot will take place Oct. 1-16.
Demolition bid picked for Scriber Lake High School
The Edmonds School Board has approved work to demolish portions of Scriber Lake High School.
The low bidder was Nuprecon of Snoqualmie, which submitted a $391,750 base bid.
Scriber Lake, an alternative high school, will move into temporary quarters next fall while a permanent school in the existing school district service center is built.
The existing Scriber Lake site will be converted into the school district headquarters and house other district operations, such as the transportation department.
Tuition-based preschool program added in Everett
Parents who have students without special needs but who wish to enroll them in an Everett School District preschool can pay $110 per month in tuition.
Preschool classes currently are offered for free to students with special needs. Many of those students would benefit from an inclusive environment that includes being around typically developing peers.
Charging tuition would help the district meet that goal while covering part of the added costs. Additional costs would be covered from voter-approved Initiative 728 funds for school improvement, staff said.
Preschool is held 21/2 hours per day, four days per week, for children ages 3 to 5.
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