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closeThursday, Aug. 27, 2009
New school year marks two milestones
By Ken Robertson, Herald Executive Editor
Next week, the Tri-Cities will mark two education milestones.
Pasco will open its second high school, Chiawana, with about 1,600 students in grades 9-11. It will be an exciting experience for students, parents and staff. It also will be the first time since the school district was established in 1885 that a district high school team will wear a uniform that isn’t purple and white — at least within anyone’s memory.
And in Richland, Delta High School will open, the joint effort of the Pasco, Kennewick and Richland school districts, Columbia Basin College, Washington State University Tri-Cities, Battelle and the entire Tri-City community.
Its aim is to transform how science and math are taught, starting at Delta, which will enroll about 100 students. Eventually, supporters hope the STEM school ideals will spread to other high schools and improve math and science courses across the region.
Over the past three years since the new $72 million Chiawana High was named, the Herald staff has spent countless hours reporting on and photographing every step of its development from an idea into the sprawling 80-acre campus and 340,000-square-foot building paid for by the district’s largest-ever bond issue of $83.4 million.
We’ve put many of those articles and photos up on a new section of the Herald’s website at tri-cityherald.com/chiawana
Sunday’s Herald will include a two-page spread of photos and stories, leading off on the front page. And tricityherald.com will include those stories and photos, plus a gallery with many additional photos.
And we haven’t forgotten about Pasco High. A separate story will detail the $16 million in upgrades and improvements returning students will see there as well.
On Tuesday, when Delta High’s doors open, the Herald will be there as well. Reporting on our schools is part of what we’ve done since the Herald became a daily newspaper in 1947.
And it’s what the Herald’s predecessor weeklies in Pasco, Kennewick and Richland have been doing since at least 1889, the oldest printing we’ve found of the old Pasco Headlight, which is believed to be our area’s first newspaper.
w Ken Robertson: 582-1520; krobertson@tricityherald.com
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