A new synthetic turf field at Lake Stevens High School will be dedicated before the kickoff of the Vikings’ first football game of the season on Friday.
The superintendent and school board president will make brief comments before the 7 p.m. game. There also will be a parent-sponsored tailgate party at 5 p.m.
The new field is the first project to be completed from a $65.5 million bond issue approved by voters in February, which also will build a new junior high school and modernize three elementary schools.
Replacement of the high school track will be completed later this fall. The stadium also will be remodeled; that work won’t start until at least 2007.
Everett seeks one principal, names second
The search continues for a principal at Woodside Elementary School, but Everett Public Schools recently named one at another elementary school.
Janelle Phinney will be principal at Jackson Elementary School. Former principal Brian Fitch is now assistant principal for Garfield and Hawthorne elementary schools.
Phinney has served as assistant principal at Hawthorne for the last three years. Before that, the Cascade High School graduate was an assistant principal and dean of students in the Mukilteo School District and taught English and social studies for the Northshore district.
District administrators hope to conduct more interviews this week for the Woodside position.
Former principal Judy Blum-Anderson is moving to be closer to her 93-year-old father. She was Woodside’s principal for seven years.
Granite Falls shuffles elementary schools
Granite Falls School District leaders aren’t expecting any elementary students to show up at the wrong school when classes begin Sept. 6.
The district has converted Mountain Way and Monte Cristo elementary schools into kindergarten-through-fifth-grade campuses.
Mountain Way had been a kindergarten-through-third-grade school, and Monte Cristo housed third- through fifth-graders and a few sixth-graders.
The move was made for several reasons, including to balance enrollment, to provide more consistent curriculum and transitions for students and to allow better collaboration among teachers.
Mountain Way will open with about 600 students; Monte Cristo, about 575.
“We aren’t expecting any problems,” said Kathy Grant, a district spokeswoman. “We sent letters to every student with their school and teacher name.”
Test analysts note smaller achievement gap
Standard &Poor’s School Evaluation Services recognized four local school districts for narrowing the achievement gap.
The analyst group noted changes in the gaps between races on the 2003 and 2004 Washington Assessment of Student Learning tests, combining reading and math results.
School districts recognized were:
Monroe: The gap between Hispanic and white students decreased by 14.9 percentage points.
Mukilteo: The gap between black and white students was down 10.3 percentage points.
Edmonds: The gap between Hispanic and white students decreased 7.9 percentage points.
Everett: The gap between black and white students closed by 6.5 percentage points.
Statewide, gaps between blacks and whites and Hispanics and whites were about even.
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