Starting Thursday Renton High School’s drama department will put on the musical, “The Wiz.”
Amid brief sun breaks, families turned out Saturday for a Bike Rodeo hosted by Safe Kids of Seattle, South King and the Renton Community Center.
According to police records and witness accounts, a 71-year-old man struck a 25-year-old man with his canes and then pulled a knife on the 25-year-old. In the end, both men were banned by the Salvation Army from the meal program there for six months.
In March, the Renton School District started its Parent Academy for Student Achievement (PASA), a parent-engagement program designed to help break down barriers to helping students succeed, starting with obstacles their parents might face.
Renton’s Assistant Superintendent of Learning and Teaching Dr. Tammy Campbell has been selected as the new superintendent of Federal Way Public Schools.
Parent refusals could lead to loss of federal money, say education officials.
The Renton School District has the highest population of students experiencing homelessness of the other districts surveyed, which were Bellevue, Index, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Monroe, Northshore, Riverview, Skykomish, Snohomish, Snoqualmie Valley and Sultan.
Saturday is the first “Row for a Day” class at the center, 900 N. Riverside Dr., Renton. The introductory class is from 9 a.m. to noon and teaches participants the basics of the rowing stroke, a brief overview of the equipment and the programs at the center.
About 1,300 Renton students were expected to attend the Renton School District’s Career and Technical Education Department’s annual Trades Fair at Lindbergh High School on Tuesday. The trades are an option for about half of Renton’s high school students today, educators say.
Third grade students at Apollo Elementary School said goodbye to about 230 Coho Salmon that they released into the Issaquah Creek March 18 as part of a “Salmon in the Schools” project.The event was also a fundraiser for the ailing program, which is in need of funds and volunteers.
For the past two years, Smith has been on dialysis three times a week, waiting for a kidney. It’s a wait that could take up to five years because that’s the wait list time for a new kidney.
Group disagrees with hearing examiner decision regarding 96-home development.
Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn announced that Renton school Lakeridge Elementary has dramatically improved student test scores in math and reading, taking the school off a list of the state’s chronically lowest performing.
Young girls will model period costumes and raise money for Seattle Children’s Hospital, in the American Girl Fashion Show coming to the Newcastle Golf Club this weekend.
This month 14-year-old Kaedyn Kashmir will release her first album.
Renton Library staff on Tuesday was honored for their aid to a library patron by the National Coalition of Community-Based Correctional and Community Re-entry Service Organizations.
A preschooler battling Williams Syndrome gets a Make-A-Wish Foundation visit from Disney Princess Elsa.
The Renton Safeway at 4300 N.E. Fourth St. re-opened Thursday as a Haggen store.
Adding additional graduation requirements has potential financial and time-related impacts for the Renton School District, which is why the board is asking for the pause.
District-wide immunization rate greater than 90 percent; H.O.M.E. program has lower percentage as does small private school
