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.

The Richland School District has promoted John Steach to Assistant Superintendent. He’s been serving as the district’s Executive Director of Human Resources. Steach was a school board member from 1995 to 2003 and joined the district in 2004. The district’s news release is here.

You probably know that the Richland School District is looking for a new superintendent following the resignation of Jean Lane. The district has hired a company called Northwest Leadership Associates to lead the superintendent search, and their first step is to get some community feedback via an online survey: “Your responses to the questions in [...]

This is cool. For the second straight year, Newsweek magazine has named Hanford High School one of the top 1,500 high schools in the U.S. The Falcons are ranked #1435 this year — congrats! Here’s how Newsweek describes the ranking system: Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number [...]