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Joe Leota Lands ‘Dream Job’ With Rainier Beach Girls Basketball

10.15.2010 News
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Seattle Times (RVP news partner): Joe Leota isn’t just happy about being hired as the new Rainier Beach girls basketball coach. “I’m ecstatic,” he said. “It’s my dream job. I grew up in the community. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to get the program headed in the right direction.” Read more. Photo/do communications Related: [...]

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Save the Date: It’s Franklin vs. Rainier Beach at Rainier Valley Historical Society

09.30.2010 Arts/Living

On Sat., Oct. 16, the Rainier Valley Historical Society will hold a volunteer work party to begin preserving its large collection of Franklin High School memorabilia, but that’s not all: Rainier Beach Vikings: we want your memories! Help even the score by donating photos, programs, yearbooks and artifacts. More info. The Rainier Valley Historical Society’s [...]

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Rainier Beach Parents Start Petition to Have New Co-Principal Removed

09.23.2010 Education
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The Seattle Medium: It appears that some members of the PTSA at Rainier Beach High School believe that the co-principal experiment at the school is not serving the best interest of the students and are asking that Co-principal Lisa Escobar be removed from Rainier Beach and re-assigned to another school within Seattle Public Schools. Escobar [...]

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Comment of the Week Goes To…

09.18.2010 Opinion

Brian on “Charlie Mas: Three Years Later, SE Education Initiative an Abject Failure”: With such an abysmal rate of graduation, it is understandable why parents might not want to place their children on the “Titanic” of public high schools. As the Whitney Houston song goes, the children are our future. Does one risk placing their [...]

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Charlie Mas: Three Years Later, SE Education Initiative an Abject Failure

09.10.2010 Education

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 [...]

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Save the Date: Broadway Bound Presents “God Lives in Glass” in Rainier Beach

08.12.2010 Arts/Living

Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre presents “God Lives In Glass” – the premiere of an original musical, born out of the tragedy of 9/11 – Fri., Aug 20, through Sun., Aug. 22, at Rainier Beach High School Performing Arts Center. The cast features young artists, ages 14-23, from across the Seattle area.

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Open Thread: Should South-End Schools Segregate?

07.27.2010 Education
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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, [...]

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Two Injured in Huge Rainier Beach Brawl

07.17.2010 911
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Around 9:30 Friday night, police responded to a large fight at Rainier Beach High School where they found two 19-year old men with serious injuries. According to police, it doesn’t appear that there were any shots fired. The Gang Unit is investigating. Photo/Will Austin Photography Related: Drive-by + Fight, Threats, Man With Guns in Rainier [...]

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Urban League Partners With Rainier Beach HS to Help Athletes Thrive

06.17.2010 Education
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The Skanner: Part of the Urban League’s mission is to partnership with community and businesses striving to help people, particularly to help African Americans become self-sufficient. Thanks to a new partnership between the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and the Rainier Beach High School football team, student athletes are provided with nutritious meals, as well [...]

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Hear What Local Teens Are Saying

02.22.2010 Arts/Living
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Rainier Beach High to Get Second Principal

01.11.2010 Education
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Seattle Times (RVP News Partner): Rainier Beach High will soon have two principals, the first in a number of changes the district is planning as it works to live up to its promise to provide high-quality schools in all neighborhoods. Lisa Escobar, now principal at The Center School, a small, alternative high school at Seattle [...]

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Rainier Beach High School Counselor Indicted on Drug Charges

12.11.2009 911
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Seattlepi.com: A Seattle Public Schools drug and alcohol counselor has been indicted on drug charges following allegations that he and another man conspired to distribute prescription pain killers. Rainier Beach High School drug and alcohol intervention specialist Robert Henry Smith, 59, was arrested Thursday night along with 37-year-old Adrian Demetrius Johnson, a U.S. Attorney’s Office [...]

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SPS Community Blog Raising Money to Buy Textbooks for Rainier Beach High

11.13.2009 Education
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From Melissa Westbrook/SPS Community Blog: After much back and forth and looking at various options, I have come to the conclusion that the best way to give money to Rainier Beach High School in support of any book needs (which are likely to be for AP books as it is not certain there is a [...]

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District Must Address Equity Issues Before Addressing Assignment

10.06.2009 Education
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Horse’s Ass: A lot of families are awfully anxious as they await [today’s] release of the Seattle School District’s new assignment plan, one which intends to assign the majority of students to their neighborhood schools, with fewer options and less flexibility than we currently enjoy. Will many of my friends here in SE Seattle, whose [...]

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Rainier Beach Girls Run Away With 3A Track Title

05.31.2009 News
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From The Seattle Times, And the Beach girls did it with at least two of the team’s best runners performing in pain from hamstring injuries. Beach scored 65 points to finish ahead of Columbia River of Vancouver (46 ½). It is Beach’s eighth girls track title and first since 2004. “I don’t think the girls [...]

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