A mother who caused her 12-year-old daughter, a Lakota Middle School student, to overdose on methadone has been sentenced for controlled substances homicide.
Two former Federal Way volunteer firefighters who died in the line of duty more than 40 years ago will be honored by South King Fire and Rescue with memorial plaques at fire stations near where each man served.
Federal Way’s fight for fair education funding will continue in the Legislature with another bill.
Eight years ago, the Issaquah School Board was one of the first in the state to adopt a system of management called Policy Governance.
Linda Brown had what she described as a “wayward child,” and felt that the Federal Way School District was not doing its part to keep his absenteeism in check. She wondered why there was not a truant officer out finding her son and other wayward children.
They only counted one. The person, gender unknown, was asleep in an old compact car at 2:42 a.m. Friday in a deserted parking lot on the north end of Federal Way.
At approximately 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Jeff Kendig stood in front of Chase Bank at the southeast corner of Pacific Highway South and South 320th Street. It was cold, in the high 30s. Kendig glanced at the clock on his cell phone and wondered whether he should wait for Federal Way Mayor Skip Priest.
The Gen X store in downtown Federal Way was evicted Jan. 21 after the clothier apparently failed to make much of its 2010 rent and property tax payments to the building owner.
Beware schoolyard bullies: the state Office of Superintendent for Public Instruction would create a group to diminish abuse and harassment at schools under a bill recently introduced in the Legislature.
Ratings of “unsatisfactory” were given to seven Federal Way school cafeterias and two high school student stores after the last round of inspections by the King County Health Department, including three of the district’s newest schools.
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Not much is known about former Des Moines resident Daisy Sonju, except that she was a big supporter of education.
King County announced Jan. 13 that state budget cuts could cause reductions in services for low-income moms and their babies — including thousands in Federal Way — and layoffs of up to 123 county health department employees.
Neu steered his speech to a historical summary of modern American education: an imperfect system devised by Thomas Jefferson, a defeat of U.S. education by U.S.S.R. in the 1950s, and now a test-result based system fostered by the federal No Child Left Behind act that was signed into law in 2002.
The Federal Way School District is predicting an $8 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2011-12 fiscal year because of anticipated state revenue reductions and waning federal stimulus funds.
Federal Way resident and former Auburn mayor Bob Roegner has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Highline Community College Board of Trustees.
It was a little like an Academy Awards party in Shannon Houghton’s class at Wildwood Elementary last Thursday.
