The schoolhouse rocks
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
Category: Education
Shared Waters: A film for a defining moment for the Kootenai River
Jennifer EkstromReader Contributor Pollution from five mountaintop removal coal mines in the Canadian Rocky Mountains is flowing downstream through the Elk River Valley of British Columbia; into the transboundary Koocanusa Reservoir; and then into...
Celebration of life planned for beloved late-educators
Legacies of Bill, Larry and Ray Miller to be honored with memorial scholarship By Reader Staff For generations of Sandpoint locals, the Miller family played an outsized role in their education. Brothers William “Bill”...
School district refutes accusations by LPOHS Coalition
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Following a tumultuous July meeting, the Lake Pend Oreille School District Board of Trustees held its monthly meeting Aug. 11, where Superintendent Becky Meyer presented legal findings refuting allegations made...
Ready! for Kindergarten expands to Cocolalla
By Reader Staff After serving Sandpoint-area families for the past 18 years, Ready! for Kindergarten, a free family education program offered locally through Panhandle Alliance for Education, is expanding to Cocolalla. The workshops equip...
Achieving independence
By Bil LewisReader Contributor As a history teacher who dresses and performs as James Madison, the most important thing in the world for me is that my students gain an appreciation for the times,...
School board unanimously votes to relocate alternative high school
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff A crowd of more than 80 community members, teachers, parents and former students of Lake Pend Oreille High School gathered July 14 at the Lake Pend Oreille School District Board...
LPOHS coalition alters demands, requests state-level audit
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Concerned Citizens for LPOHS Coalition served the Lake Pend Oreille School District with a conditional settlement offer on July 6, following the 31-page official grievance filed the week prior...
Coalition files grievance against school district over LPOHS campus relocation
Complaint alleges financial misuse, attendance data fraud By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Concerned Citizens for LPOHS Coalition, led by former-West Bonner County School District Superintendent Jackie Branum, lodged a formal grievance against Lake Pend...
Using ‘what the good Lord gave’ him
SHS Choir Teacher Jon Brownell retires after nearly 40 years By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff It’s a bittersweet summer for thousands of Bonner County graduates across three different generations, as the one teacher who united...
