Schools
News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office RONAN — On Sept. 2, 2021, at about 2:15 p.m., there was a brief lockdown placed on K. William Harvey Elementary School in Ronan. This was as a result of an incident involving a low-speed pursuit by officers of a man riding a miniature motorcycle carrying a 3-year-old child. Officers attempted to stop the man, later identified as 21-year-old D’Andre Moses, of Ronan, near the intersection of 6th Avenue SW and Round Butte Road, but he failed to yield. Moses drove to K. William Harvey School, left the roadway, and began driving the motorcycle across the playground while students were out at recess. Shortly after the lockdown, Mos...
“How do you not fall in love with Polson, Montana?” asks Mike Cutler, the community’s new school superintendent. “To me, it’s one of those jobs, those school districts, those communities – no other can compete.” Cutler was hired in February to replace interi...
POLSON — As the school year nears, Polson School District officials continue to monitor the situation with COVID-19 in our country and specifically within Lake County. We are committed to full-time, in-person instruction, activity participation, and parent engagement in our schools. We look...
News from the office of Senator Tester U.S. Senate — Montana schools are set to receive more than $127 million in critical funding to help reopen safely in the fall and get students back on track, U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced today. The $127,339,745 is the second tranche of Elementary and ...
MONTANA — Nature is, in many ways, hard to measure, yet researchers have spent decades searching for ways to best quantify its health and create benchmarks for conservation. Now, an international team led by Montana State University ecologist Andrew Hansen hopes to help the more than 150 countries in t...
News from ACLU Montana The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Montana, and the Native American Rights Fund filed a class-action lawsuit last week on behalf of five Indian nations and 18 individual plaintiffs challenging the state of Montana’s failure to fulfill its constitutional mandate ...
By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service MONTANA — Fifteen educators who work in Montana and Alaska have been selected to receive scholarships that will help them complete a Montana State University library media certificate program infused with Indigenous perspectives. In Polson, Francy Moll received t...
News from the office of Governor Gianforte HELENA — Governor Greg Gianforte recently announced the state will devote $3.9 million in ARPA funds to bridge the technology divide and expand learning opportunities for students from pre-kindergarten through the 12th grade. “We’re committ...
News from OPI MONTANA — The Montana Office of Public Instruction released a video that highlights what life was like for graduating seniors during a global pandemic. Interviews were conducted at schools in Whitehall, Great Falls, Arlee, Rocky Boy and Frenchtown. “In Their Own Words: Monta...
ST. IGNATIUS – Glacier Lake School, Montana’s first, and only, self-directed democratic school, celebrated two graduates. Rachel Brown and Elina Moore received their diplomas on June 16. Brown has served as school meeting secretary, law clerk and has been an active part of the Art Corpor...
