The world’s largest participatory art project, Inside Out, has hit Vancouver. Skyview High School, to be exact. Skyview seniors Marta Alcazar, Rubyna Ali and Shelby Sherman, working with teacher Jenna Biggs, spent months taking pictures [...]
Vancouver Public Schools will hold a community design symposium on May 27. Approximately 70 people including students, parents, teachers, principals, district administrators and community partners will participate in the one-day symposium. Their task: examine current [...]
U.S. News & World Report recently placed Vancouver School of Arts and Academics and Skyview High School among the best public high schools in the nation as part of its annual ranking. VSAA was named [...]
Discovery Middle School teacher Patrick Mahaney is interviewed for the U.S. Department of Education video project. "I am writing to inform you that the U.S. Department of Education selected your district to [...]
Case study released as VHA board votes to target Section 8 opening to families with children and health-burdened households The study explores collaboration between public housing authorities and education service providers in three U.S. cities. [...]
Vancouver Public Schools has announced several administrative changes for the 2015-16 school year. Personnel assignments are subject to final approval by the school board. At the district administrative office, Travis Campbell has been hired as [...]
Three students from Vancouver Public Schools have received top honors from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Jason Anderson, Columbia River High School, and Samir Sen, Skyview High School, were named 2015 National Merit Scholars. Jessica [...]
Superintendent Steve Webb will showcase Vancouver’s work in digital learning at the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in Vancouver, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash. | April 15, 2015 – Beginning this weekend, Vancouver Public Schools [...]
Pictured above, from left: Kassie Wielenback, Cedric Hitzeman, Brittney Hauff and teacher Steve Lorenz. After rising above their Washington state competitors and 14 other schools from across the country, Hudson’s Bay High School recently clinched one [...]
Skyview High School will host eight student ambassadors from five African countries on Wednesday, March 25. The visit, coordinated by the World Affairs Council of Oregon, is part of the U.S. State Department’s Youth Ambassadors [...]
Division Two of the Washington State Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments outside of their Tacoma courtroom during a community visit to Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, WA, on Monday, March 30. "We [...]
Thanks to the Hudson’s Bay High School National Honor Society’s Dreams Come Alive event, students from all over Vancouver Public Schools will have the opportunity to purchase low-cost formalwear and accessories on Saturday, March 21. [...]
Kindergarten registration for the 2015-16 school year will begin Monday, April 13, 2015. Any child who will be 5 years old on or before Aug. 31, 2015, is eligible to enter kindergarten this fall. Parents [...]
As part of its ongoing effort to save lives, the Quinn Driscoll Foundation has given more than $16,000 to Vancouver Public Schools to purchase 10 additional automated external defibrillators. The district currently has one or [...]
As part of a comprehensive analysis of its facilities, Vancouver Public Schools is asking the community to give input about the condition of its school buildings. The survey will run March 10-24. It can be [...]
Mark Ray, Vancouver Public Schools' director of instructional technology and library services, recently was named one of "20 to Watch" honorees for 2014-15 by the National School Boards Association's Technology Leadership Network. The honor recognizes [...]
The American School Board Journal’s 2015 Magna Award winners have been announced, and among the five first-place winners in the over 20,000 enrollment category is Vancouver Public Schools’ 2014 Go Ready! Back-to-School Readiness Festival. The [...]
A unique solution to the problem of cardboard waste has catapulted Hudson's Bay High School first to the Washington state award and now into the national phase of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. Hudson's [...]
Vancouver Public Schools will welcome school district leaders from across the country to Vancouver, Washington, Feb. 17-18, to participate in the second of 12 Future Ready Regional Summits. The summits are designed to help district [...]
The Vancouver Public Schools board of directors selected Nada Wheelock to fill the board seat vacated by Mari Greves following her retirement. Wheelock will take the oath of office at the Feb. 10 school board meeting. [...]
The Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors will interview six candidates on Wednesday, Jan. 28, beginning at 3 p.m., for the position recently vacated by retiring Board member Mari Greves. Interviews will be held at [...]
Secondary students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of magnet programs, full-day programs which feature a unique theme as a focus for the curriculum across all content areas, and programs of choice, half-day [...]
The Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors invites interested community members to apply for the unexpired position of board member Mari Greves who will retire Jan. 13, 2015. An applicant will be appointed by the [...]
Vancouver school board member Mari Greves announced her retirement at the Dec. 9 school board meeting. Greves’ last board meeting as a director will be Jan. 13, 2015. During her 20-year tenure, Greves helped steer [...]
Lincoln Elementary's Family-Community Resource Center recently received a grant in the amount of $1,150 from Altrusa International of Clark County to encourage and engage parents to become more involved in reading with their children. The award, [...]
Work already under way in Vancouver Public Schools to create safe and supportive learning environments in each of its schools got a boost this past week with the announcement of a nearly $3 million grant [...]
Opening day Vancouver Public Schools will begin the 2014-15 school year on Wednesday, Sept. 3. School changes Vancouver iTech Preparatory, a magnet school with a science, technology, engineering and math focus, will expand to include [...]