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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Tahoma schools to release early on Fridays
The Tahoma School District will release all schools 90 minutes early most Fridays next year for staff professional development time. The calendar change comes after a unanimous vote Tuesday night of the Tahoma School Board that followed a special meeting attended by about 50 parents and staff at the Rock Creek Elementary gym. The weekly [...]
Two alternatives to Monday late starts proposed
The Tahoma School District superintendent has come up with two alternatives to the Monday late starts next year, and the district wants feedback from families before or during this Tuesday’s school board meeting. Superintendent Mike Maryanski reviewed initial feedback from parents, staff and the school board to devise two options, both on Fridays: a 90-minute [...]
Whooping cough outbreak affects Tahoma
As Washington state deals with its largest outbreak of whooping cough in many years, the Tahoma School District has confirmed 20 cases here. Michelle Zaleski, Tahoma’s nursing coordinator, says many other cases have probably gone undiagnosed. The disease, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial illness that looks a lot like a cold at first [...]
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 [...]
NFL honors Tahoma PE teacher
Like many sports fans around the country, Tahoma High School physical education teacher Tracy Krause spent last weekend watching the NFL draft — but Krause had a ringside seat. The NFL invited Krause to watch the draft in person after naming him the NFL Network PE Teacher of the Year. Krause says the award reflects [...]
Tahoma to draw up alternatives to Monday late starts
The Tahoma School Board has asked the district to come up with some alternatives to the proposed Monday late start in response to teacher and parent concerns. “From the comments that I’ve read [online] and heard, Monday late arrival certainly isn’t very popular,” said board member Mary Jane Glaser in front of a packed room [...]
Junior High wins U.S. Green Schools award
Tahoma Junior High is among just 66 public schools in the nation and three statewide to be named a U.S. Green Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. “These schools are engaging in some of the most innovative school reforms anywhere,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday in announcing the list of [...]
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