Three Tahoma elementaries are helping to filter pollution with new rain gardens, thanks to a pair of local landscapers, an environmental educator and lots of students willing to get their hands dirty. “It’s kind of a community service project for us,” says Ena Soushek, who operates Maple Valley-based MVG, a landscape contractor, with her husband, [...]
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Kids help create bottle-cap murals
By Marie VandenBosch, Mikell Fuller and Ella Henry In the spring of 2012 Glacier Park Elementary students created four murals made of recycled material. It all started when Tahoma High School students collected bottle caps of all shapes and sizes to donate to Glacier Park Elementary School for the kids to all contribute on a [...]
Elementaries to feel impact of overcrowding
Tahoma’s overcrowding and budget problems will impact the district’s younger students next year with bigger class sizes overall and some loss of computer labs and activity spaces — and some students may be pulled out of their home schools and bused across town. Superintendent Mike Maryanski told the school board that the district is struggling [...]
Tahoma Junior High nominated for national ‘green’ award
Tahoma Junior High is among just four schools in the state to be nominated for a first-ever national award for environmental programs. “I’m pleased for the people who have put in a lot of work on this,” says Rob Morrow, junior high principal. This is the pilot year for the “Green Ribbon Schools Award,” created [...]
Glacier Park wins achievement award for fourth year
For the fourth year straight, Glacier Park Elementary has earned the Washington Achievement Award for Overall Excellence, placing it among the top 5 percent of schools in the state. Second-year principal Chris Thomas credits teachers and support staff at the elementary, which has an enrollment of 843 students. “We start working on students meeting standards [...]
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