| Option | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Levy Yes | 6,690 | 59.16% |
| Levy No | 4,619 | 40.84% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
Two years in the making and already one failure under their belts, passing a $72 million bond was a “team effort,” Cheney Public Schools Superintendent Ben Ferney said.
Voters passed the school district’s $11.8 million property tax levy to pay for building maintenance and improvements. It had 57% support in Tuesday’s count.
After casting a vote for president, governor, and state schools superintendent, voters in the West Valley School District will also be asked if they support a property tax levy to pay for remodeling and repairing school buildings.
Millwood voters’ November ballots just got longer.
North Central High School Junior Cyrus Crider woke up on a school day last school year, imagining school friends and the warm faces of the teachers who made them feel seen and loved by urging Crider to come to school.
Michael Liberg is an honor roll student at West Valley High School. He also is a small business owner in Spokane Valley.
It was in a Dishman Hills High School history class that Samantha Vazquez first heard of the Chicano Movement, also known as El Movimiento.
Shanté Payne, teacher and adviser at West Valley High School, won two awards Monday, not for what she does directly, but what she allows her students to do.
Five school districts in Spokane County that suffered rejected tax proposals last month are regrouping and may be back to voters with smaller plans later this year.
Cindy Akins insists she doesn’t deserve to be featured in this newspaper as a “difference maker.”
