http://www.rainiervalleypost.com Proudly serving Southeast Seattle since 2007 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:22:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-school-news-meet-greet-with-new-rainier-beach-hs-principal-parent-summit-at-cleveland-more/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-school-news-meet-greet-with-new-rainier-beach-hs-principal-parent-summit-at-cleveland-more/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:00:09 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=43023 Meet new Rainier Beach High School principal on Aug. 15: The community is invited to join Rainier Beach High School for a Meet & Greet with its new principal, Dwane Chapelle, on Mon., Aug. 15, from 6:30-8 pm at 8815 Seward Park Ave. S. According to Seattle Public Schools, this will be an opportunity to [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-school-news-meet-greet-with-new-rainier-beach-hs-principal-parent-summit-at-cleveland-more/feed/ 0 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/sable-verity-urban-league-in-auditor%e2%80%99s-cross-hairs-yes-again-over-cleveland-high-program/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/sable-verity-urban-league-in-auditor%e2%80%99s-cross-hairs-yes-again-over-cleveland-high-program/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:03 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=40786 by Sable Verity File this under wtfdejavu. That’s a new word. It was necessary to create one, give this: The state auditor is again questioning whether the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle has overcharged Seattle Public Schools — this time for a contract it signed with the school district in December to help African-American students [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/sable-verity-urban-league-in-auditor%e2%80%99s-cross-hairs-yes-again-over-cleveland-high-program/feed/ 2 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-students-travelling-to-guatemala-collecting-donations-of-crocs-flip-flops/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-students-travelling-to-guatemala-collecting-donations-of-crocs-flip-flops/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:52:46 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=35436 Later this month, three freshmen students from STEM @ Cleveland’s School of Life Sciences (SoLS) academy will be traveling to Guatemala to spread the word on the prevention of ascaris, a type of roundworm that infects humans, and they need your help. The worms are typically transmitted when the eggs or lavae in the soil [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-students-travelling-to-guatemala-collecting-donations-of-crocs-flip-flops/feed/ 0 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/rainier-beach-high-school-principal-out-after-13-years/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/rainier-beach-high-school-principal-out-after-13-years/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:45:08 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=34488 School superintendent Maria L. Goodloe-Johnson announced last week that Rainier Beach High School co-principals, Dr. Robert Gary and Lisa Escobar will transition to new positions and a new principal will be appointed for the 2011-2012 school year. The announcement came on the heels of last week’s news that the troubled Rainier Valley high school is [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/rainier-beach-high-school-principal-out-after-13-years/feed/ 10 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-teens-much-more-likely-to-get-pregnant-than-north-end-peers/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-teens-much-more-likely-to-get-pregnant-than-north-end-peers/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:36:29 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=29302 The Seattle Times (RVP news partner): Teen pregnancy is associated with all sorts of bad things — physical risks to babies, interrupted education for moms, and lower lifetime incomes all around — so it’s good news that Washington, overall, has a significantly lower rate than the U.S. average. But the statistics released Wednesday morning by [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-teens-much-more-likely-to-get-pregnant-than-north-end-peers/feed/ 1 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/three-south-end-seattle-schools-receive-1-million-grant-to-increase-student-achievement/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/three-south-end-seattle-schools-receive-1-million-grant-to-increase-student-achievement/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:00:43 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=27947 Seattle Public Schools (SPS) has received a $1.05 million, three-year Youth Engagement Zone grant designed to help improve academic and civic engagement for students attending STEM @ Cleveland High School, Aki Kurose Middle School and Mercer Middle School in southeast Seattle. The grant – a partnership with the Nature Consortium, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/three-south-end-seattle-schools-receive-1-million-grant-to-increase-student-achievement/feed/ 0 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/charlie-mas-three-years-later-se-education-initiative-an-abject-failure/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/charlie-mas-three-years-later-se-education-initiative-an-abject-failure/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:00:20 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=27319 Charlie Mas, Seattle Public Schools Community Blog: There has been some discussion of Rainier Beach High School on the NSAP thread and it has been along the lines of “What can be done to make Rainier Beach a school of choice for the families living in that neighborhood?” The fact that we are asking this [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/charlie-mas-three-years-later-se-education-initiative-an-abject-failure/feed/ 21 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/open-thread-should-south-end-schools-segregate/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/open-thread-should-south-end-schools-segregate/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:08:37 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=24784 Considering the many challenges facing schools in southeast Seattle, some have suggested that educating girls and boys separately may help fix our public schools, others say the concept simply reinforces outmoded gender stereotypes.What do you think? From Newsweek: If you thought charter schools and ending teacher tenure were controversial fixes for the American school system, [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/open-thread-should-south-end-schools-segregate/feed/ 9 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/school-news-cleveland-students-win-awards-franklin-students-produce-video-more/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/school-news-cleveland-students-win-awards-franklin-students-produce-video-more/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:00:47 +0000 admin http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=20946 Two Cleveland students win awards for ‘Is Justice Blind?’ essay contest: Two Cleveland High School students received first- and second-place awards for their entries in the “Is Justice Blind?” essay contest. Maraaunjanique Smallwood and Anise Leffall, students in the third-period U.S. history class of Teofilo Cadiente, won first and second prize respectively. The 500-word contest [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/school-news-cleveland-students-win-awards-franklin-students-produce-video-more/feed/ 2 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/cleveland-high-plan-for-magnet-school-draws-interest-but-is-there-enough-money/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/cleveland-high-plan-for-magnet-school-draws-interest-but-is-there-enough-money/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:00:22 +0000 admin http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=19809 Seattle Times (RVP news partner): Plans to turn Seattle’s Cleveland High into a magnet school that focuses on math, science, engineering and technology drew hundreds of eighth-graders and their parents to an open house Saturday. They included Sonja and Gerald Bradford, who said the new program put Cleveland on the list of prospective high schools [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/cleveland-high-plan-for-magnet-school-draws-interest-but-is-there-enough-money/feed/ 4