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If you have thoughts about running for a school board position , now is a good time to start planning. You have to live in the District in which you want to run. Each Board position is elected by the voters from the entire school district.  Questions?  Contact sparthemer@lwsd.org, Director of Communications and Community Engagement. Chris Carson -  DISTRICT 2   Kirkland area / West Lk. Samm. Blvd./ No. Bridal Trails (tan district color) Christopher Carlson, Ph.D., was elected to the school board in November 2007. He is a faculty member in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Division of Public Health Sciences. His lab focuses on identifying correlations between genetic variation and disease risk for cancer, diabetes, and other common diseases, then identifying the biological mechanism responsible. Carlson is also an affiliate assistant professor with the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. He holds a B.A. in mol...

At its December 3 meeting, Lake Washington School District�s (LWSD) Board of Directors passed Resolution No. 2259 to place a Capital Projects Levy on the April 23, 2019 ballot. This measure, if passed, authorizes a six-year levy totaling $120 million or an average of $20 million per year for six years. Levy funds would pay for critical projects to address rapid enrollment growth and student safety and security. Proposed projects include: classroom additions at Lake Washington High School, including auxiliary gyms and commons; classroom additions at Carson Elementary, Franklin Elementary, Rose Hill Elementary, and Twain Elementary, including expansion of core facilities where feasible; and support student safety by adding exterior security cameras at elementary schools and create entry modifications for security at Eastlake, Redmond and Lake Washington High Schools. (Juanita High School�s entry modifications will be added during the current construction project.)  According to Shann...

Making a splash � Redmond High swim and dive coach named 4A swim coach of the year Nov   26   2018 Redmond High School (RHS) girls� swim and dive head coach, Julie Barashkoff, has been named the Washington State Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association 4A Swim Coach of the Year. She was presented with the honor at the State Swim and Dive Championships November 9-10. John Appelgate, LWSD Athletics & Title IX Specialist, said, �This award is indicative of Julie�s commitment to educational athletics, emphasis on sportsmanship and her positive interactions with colleagues.� The RHS swim and dive team finished in tenth place at this year�s state meet. -- LWSD.org 

LWSD is considering an additional $120M levy.  This 6-year [school] levy will cost homeowners $29.00 for every $100,000 in assessed value. So the owner of a $700,000 house would pay $203 more per year in property taxes (2020-2026.) Property taxes on the $700,000 house are already: State School Taxes: $1330 McCleary School Taxes: $700 LWSD School Taxes: $1900 Roads, City, ST3, Hosp, etc: $2,800 Total: $6730 School taxes now make up 60% of our property taxes. This levy provides 4 elementary school additions and an addition at Lake Washington High School that was rebuilt in 2011. The District isn't even addressing the construction projects authorized by the Long Term Facilities Task Force. They will ask taxpayers to fund these in the 2020 bond measure. Additionally, the McCleary tax is scheduled to increase by 30% in 2021. I've lived in the same house for 20+ years. In 2012, my property tax bill was $4998 and the school taxes were $2600. In 2018, my property tax bill was $7,900 an...

Before the journey begins � students learn about life cycles at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Nov   6   2018 Third grade students at Wilder Elementary School are learning about the life cycles of salmon. The students saw Coho and Chinook salmon up close during a visit to the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery on October 12. During a tour, they learned about salmon habitat and how the hatchery operates. They also learned how to tell the difference between Coho and Chinook, and whether a fish was male or female. The salmon complete their grueling journey from the sea to spawn in Issaquah Creek in the fall. LWSD website

If all students in LWSD who were eligible for school bus transportation were provided bus service and rode the bus to school, the traffic jams around our schools would not exist. The trouble is that our students are not provided with buses so their pa rents must drive them to school.  Note that in Washington State, students who must walk more than a mile to school are eligible for bus transportation as part of basic education. (See the section on the 1-mile walk-area in 28A-160-160 in the R C W) The Lake Washington School District Transportation website says "The district provides transportation only to those students living outside a one-mile radius." The one-mile radius rule was replaced by the 1-mile walk route in 2011. (SEVEN YEARS AGO!!) Why hasn't the district updated this policy on its website? LWSD is unfairly using this outdated statute to deny bus transportation to thousands of students. Horace Mann students who live at Lookout Ridge/Perrigo Heights and the peri...

I'm so happy our schools are taking this innovative hands-on approach to learning, What do you think?

Clara Barton open house:  Thursday, October 11th, 4:15 - 7PM 12101-172nd Ave NE Ella Baker Elementary  (video) open house:  Saturday, October 6th, 10 - 1:30 PM 9596 East Ridge Drive NE 9/20/2018

Click on a link below to jump to updates for other projects funded by the 2016 bond:  Juanita High School Margaret Mead Elementary School Peter Kirk Elementary Old Redmond Schoolhouse Explorer Community School Juanita High School  Juanita High School students r eturned to campus for their first day of school on September 4. Students will attend classes in what remains of their old building, as well as in 15 double-classroom portables. The first phase of the new school building will open in one year. Roof installation is complete. Masonry at the theater is complete. Exterior work � including brick veneer and window installation � has begun. Sheetrock installation has begun. A regional operating engineers union strike has been resolved. Margaret Mead Elementary School Concrete floors started. Structural brace frame concret e footings are complete. Borings for geothermal wells started. Utility work is in progress. A regional operating engineers union strike has been resolved....

Adds space for 1,380 elementary students in rapidly growing district Redmond, Wash.  � Students in Lake Washington School District (LWSD) will have a little more space to learn this fall. Two new elementary schools will open in September: Ella Baker Elementary, located in the Redmond Ridge East Community ; and Clara Barton Elementary, located in North Redmond Spaces for learning Both new schools will feature 30 standard classrooms, plus music, art/science rooms, English Learner (EL), Safety Net and Special Education spaces, a library, a cafeteria/commons, a gymnasium and an outdoor covered play area. Learning will extend beyond the walls of the traditional classroom. Sliding NanaWalls (bi-folding doors) open to shared learning spaces in each classroom wing. These flexible spaces, also included in other modernized LWSD schools, increase opportunities for collaboration and reflect an emphasis on project-based learning. New SMART interactive boards will replace Activboards. All school...

LWSD student art May is Arts in Education Month May is Washington State�s Art Education Month � a time to celebrate the wonderful arts education in our schools and the terrific art our students create as a result. What does art mean to you? For LWSD students, art provides a way to express themselves. It is fun, magical, creative, beautiful and awesome.  I really like going to the school board meetings sometimes just to see the art.   At every board meeting there's a "host school" where the principal and staff explain their accomplishments and challenges.  The students from the host schools always draw art.  It's posted behind the dias and all around the room.  These kids have fun!  They are creative!  And they are good! B. Yoder

View from the 166th Ave. sidewalk     This construction site at 8360-165th Ave. NE is visible from 166th Ave. and 165th Ave.  It's currently named "The Village" and will have 96 multi-family apartments.  The entrance will be from 165th. At last week's school board meeting, LWSD Director Mark Stuart suggested taking students to the school construction sites to study construction engineering AND the trades. Hiring and pay is strong in the trades. What a novel, innovative teaching idea!    Board member Cassandra Sage agreed with Mark. President Bliesner tabled the idea to move the meeting on. In my opinion, the construction sites shouldn't have to be restricted to schools like Juanita.  This site can be easily and safely studied from a sidewalk, rain or shine with no mud.  Teachers could plan field trips around convenient times for the workers to learn from them,,,, maybe lunch time. B. Yoder