Cari McGee and Matt McGee write about life and living in Richland, WA, and the Tri-Cities!
Via email tonight we learn that Richland School District has selected a new superintendent: Dr. James Busey, who’s most recently served as superintendent at the Lake Chelan School District. The photo at right is from Dr. Busey’s staff bio on the LCSD web site.
The RSD email includes some more background about Dr. Busey:
Dr. Busey has [...]
The Richland School District has shelved three options that were on the table to reduce class time in secondary schools so that teachers could spend more time in group collaboration. We outlined the three options in our post last week, RSD May Reduce Class Time for Secondary Schools. Each option would’ve cut back on instructional [...]
If you’re thinking about attending WSU Tri-Cities, the school is hosting a “Discover WSU Tri-Cities” campus tour/event next week. It’s scheduled for Tuesday, January 26, at 11:00 am.
According to the school announcement, the program “includes an overview of the academic programs for freshmen and transfer students, brief meetings with several professors, a campus tour, [...]
If you have a student at the elementary level in the Richland School District, you already know that your kids come home early every Friday while the teachers have what they call “collaboration time.” Now the district is considering adding collaboration time for teachers in middle and high schools, too.
The district will host five [...]
Just got an alert from the Richland School District that there’s no heat at Jason Lee Elementary and kids are being dismissed early. Here’s what the District sent out about 10 minutes ago:
Jason Lee Elementary School will dismiss students at 12:45 pm today due to dropping temperatures in the school. The heating system has [...]
After interviewing a half-dozen finalists, the Richland School Board appointed Bechtel engineer Rick Donahoe as its newest member. Here’s the RSD announcement:
http://www.rsd.edu/articles/donahoe-selected-to-serve-on-school-board.html
He’ll be sworn in next week and will come up for election in November 2011.
The five other candidates were: Kevin Smith, Nancy Lyons, Jacqueline van Wormer, James Dukelow and Tracy Wilson.