Freedom ain’t easy.
I mean, it’s easy to say, but it’s an even tougher concept to grasp, especially in a world of finite resources.
For hundreds of years, the United States of America has been the Land of the Free, the Land of Opportunity, where anyone, from any race, creed, culture or background, could go in order to live their life as they want.
When you’re a freshman in high school, those four years until graduation can seem like forever.
But the truth is, graduation comes quicker than expected for many students and the what they do in their first few years of high school can make all the difference to their post-high school career.
Voters in the Kent School District will begin receiving ballots in the mail asking them to approve the district’s 2010 maintenance and operations levy, which makes up approximately 20 percent of the district’s budget.
In addition to the maintenance and operation levy, the Kent School District is running a second proposition on the Feb. 9 ballot asking voters to approve replacement funds for the district’s technology programs.
From the outside, the office is just another small, nondescript warehouse building in one of the many corporate parks that line the Green River Valley in Kent.
But inside lies what could be the cutting edge in the race for a new way to space.
And it’s name is Otis.
Every school in the Kent School District has events scheduled for the upcoming weeks and months to honor Dr. Martin Luther King in celebration of the holiday that bears his name.
The Kent School District’s annual Technology Expo is scheduled for this month and this year’s event promises to be bigger than ever.
In the past the event bounced from school to school, but this year it is being hosted at the ShoWare Center to allow enough space for a new direction which will combine student projects with local businesses to show how what the kids are learning applies to the real world.
It may have been called the Game of Life, but the topics being discussed this past week during the 23rd annual event at Kent Commons were anything but child’s play.
Ask anyone who moved to the Seattle area from elsewhere and they will all tell you the same thing: “I really like living here, but man, you people are the worst drivers in the country.”
It’s true. I am sorry to say it, but it’s absolutely true. Even Jersey drivers point their fingers and shake their heads at Seattle drivers.
Changes in the way security is being handled are under way at the Kent School District as the district is shifting away from a “security model” and toward a “safety model” that includes a more proactive approach based on developing relationships with students.
Voters in the Kent School District this past week are getting their first official look at the numbers for next February’s levy vote. The language was approved Nov. 18 by the school board.
The Kent School District in October released the district’s results in a recent round of college assessment tests and while the district generally did well compared to state and national averages, African-American scores continue to lag behind, highlighting what many call the “achievement gap.
Kent School District college assessment scores show good scores, but minorities lag
Last year at this time I was in Philadelphia celebrating a World Series championship with 2 million of my closest friends.
I had high hopes (high, apple pie-in-the-sky hopes) of doing it again this year, but, unfortunately, the New York Yankees were working from a different script.
The Kent teacher strike is officially over and classes will finally begin Tuesday morning at schools all across the district.
Members of the Kent Education Association on Monday approved a new contract, ending the walkout that had effectively shut down the district since Aug. 26.
The Kent School District announced on its Web site Friday afternoon that school will not start Monday as previously scheduled or as expected, but is instead scheduled to begin Tuesday, Sept. 15.
For the first day of school in Kent, will the third time be the charm?
If not, teachers in the district will be looking at some pretty hefty fines.
On the day he was ordered by a King County Superior Court judge to return to work and prepare his classroom for students to arrive the next day, Greg Simpers went in to work.
He was the only one to do so at his building.
With teachers in the Kent School District deciding Monday to defy a King County Superior Court Judge’s order to end their nearly two-week old strike and return to classrooms, the question immediately becomes: What happens next?
A second state mediator was sent to Kent this past weekend to help work toward an agreement on a new contract.
The second mediator was requested by the Kent Education Association and was scheduled to arrive in Kent Saturday afternoon.
Members of the Kent School Board have been staying updated on the negotiations between the district and the Kent Education Association through phone calls with Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas and near-daily meetings in executive session.
