Edmonds School District bus drivers are looking to the community for support as they continue to appeal the district’s decision to cut off their health benefits while they are out of work. Rows of yard signs shaped like school buses — representing the district’s 175 out-of-work drivers — decorated a patch of grass on 204th…
The Edmonds School District last week unveiled its proposed plans for reintegrating students into the classroom when officials give their OK for in-person learning. At the Edmonds School Board’s Sept. 22 business meeting, staff detailed a draft four-stage model to phase students back into classrooms. According to the draft, the distinct proposed prioritizing students in…
The Edmonds School District 2020-21 Student Artwork Calendar is complete and is currently being printed. Copies will be sent to each district family. The printed calendars are scheduled to arrive within the next week. For planning purposes, a PDF version of the calendar has been posted online in case families would like to print it…
An unknown suspect hacked into a Mountlake Terrace High School Zoom lesson Tuesday and posted racial slurs during the meeting, according to school administrators. In a statement sent to parents Tuesday, Principal Greg Schellenberg said an unknown non-student accessed the meeting’s messaging function and repeatedly posted the N-word during the online lesson. “The teacher and…
This story has been updated with corrections to the conversation regarding the officer liaison program. Looking for a method of assessing students’ math learning skills, the Edmonds School Board voted last week to adopt the i-Ready Math System for the 2020-21 school year. i-Ready is an online program used to assess students’ reading and/or mathematics…
The Edmonds School District announced Friday that it will be bringing back to work three bus drivers of the 175 who had been laid off in August after the school district decided to teach students remotely this fall. More drivers may be recalled as the need increases, the district said. Of the three drivers who…
Bus drivers for the Edmonds School District rallied in Lynnwood Tuesday, urging the district to reinstate the health care plans they say were taken away despite state legislation passed to protect them. Around a dozen drivers waving signs in front of Meadowdale High School said they were protesting the district’s decision to terminate the health…
Since students will be relying heavily on computers for online learning this fall, parents have been looking to brush up on their technology skills. To prepare families, district staff held a community forum last Tuesday demonstrating how to navigate district-issued Chromebooks and online learning forums. The district’s libraries and instructional technology program is committed to…
The Edmonds School District 2020-21 Calendar and Family Handbook are available online. View the online version here. The district calendar is available in English and Spanish. The handbook is currently only available in English, but will be available in Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Amharic, Korean and Mandarin/Chinese simplified at a later date.
As teachers prepare for remote learning this fall, the Edmonds School District has partnered with local providers to assist working families who rely on the school day to provide child care. Since announcing schools would not be immediately reopening for in-person learning, families requiring daily child care have been scrambling to make arrangements for their…
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After weeks of negotiating, the Edmonds Education Association announced it has reached a tentative agreement with the Edmonds School District amid concerns that proposed schedules did not allow teachers enough time to plan online lessons during the 2020-21 school year. How much time it will take to prepare online lessons and proposed class schedules were…
Before the start of the 2020-21 school year on Sept. 9, Edmonds School District families qualifying for free and reduced meals are encouraged to register to receive free meal kits. Meal kits with five breakfasts and five lunches will be available free to students who qualify for free meals. Reduced students will pay $2. Full-pay…
Edmonds School staff held a virtual community forum Tuesday to discuss how students with special learning needs will be supported as the 2020-21 school year begins remotely. After announcing last month that schools would remain closed to in-person learning this fall at the advice of public health officials, the district has been working to prepare…
Scriber Lake High School will host a virtual informational meeting Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. for prospective students for the 2020-21 school year. The meeting is required for any students who will be enrolling at Scriber Lake for the new year. Parents, family members and guardians are welcome to attend the meeting. Registration is…
The Edmonds School District is laying off bus drivers until schools reopen for in-person learning. On Friday, 175 of the district’s bus drivers were notified that they will not be returning to their bus routes at the start of the 2020-21 school year. The furloughs — a result of the school closures due to the…
To provide support to families across the district, the Edmonds School District has partnered with four child care providers across the district for the 2020-21 school year. The district has selected the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club and Kids Krew as well as the district’s contracted child care provider, Right At School to provide…
Though Edmonds School District students will not be returning to classrooms this fall, district staff are developing plans for resuming in-person learning for when given the go ahead by health officials. Earlier this year, the district released plans to use a hybrid learning model that splits students into two groups and alternates their time between…
Ahead of the first day of school on Sept. 9, the Edmonds School District is asking families to provide feedback on learning plans for their students for the 2020-21 school year. District leaders announced last month its plans to begin the school year by teaching students remotely using its Continuous Learning 2.0 model. The Student…
With help from several community partners, the Edmonds School District provided more than a thousand students in need with school supplies ahead of the new school year. Earlier this week, more than one hundred community volunteers and district employees worked to safely distribute backpacks with school supplies and face masks to 1,600 students who registered…
Lynnwood High School Tuesday night joined the list of Edmonds School District high schools that will no longer have a police officer. Seven weeks ago, the Edmonds School Board voted to remove police officers from Edmonds-Woodway, Meadowdale and Mountlake Terrace high schools but postponed a vote on Lynnwood, pending a safety review. At its Tuesday,…
Though students will not be returning to classrooms for in-person learning in the fall, the Edmonds School District held its annual back-to-school fair at several locations to provide students with school supplies. Monday and Tuesday, staff and volunteers distributed backpacks with paper, notebooks, pencils and markers to students. Some were also supplied with face masks…
The Edmonds School District will offer free preschool programs during the 2020-21 school year including Family Pre-K and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Programs (ECEAP). Family Pre-K at various school locations For 4-5 year olds, during the year before they enter kindergarten Focus on six developmental areas: literacy, language, math, cognitive, motor and social-emotional Two-hour…
The deadline for online back-to-school registration for Edmonds School District students has been extended to Aug. 7. The district’s Back-to-School Consortium is also assisting families in need by providing registered K-12 students with free school supplies. Register online on the district website.
Hours after announcing schools would not be reopening for in-person learning in the fall, Edmonds School District leaders hosted a virtual community forum Wednesday to answer students’ questions and provide more details about plans to teach remotely. In response to the Snohomish Health District’s recommendation to not reopen schools at the start of the 2020-21…
The Edmonds School Board will hold a virtual study session Tuesday, July 21 at 2 p.m. to hear an update on plans to reopen schools in the 2020-21 school year. Superintendent Gustavo Balderas will provide the board with the district’s latest plans to reopen schools using a hybrid model of learning that will divide students’…
