Pasco Schools Announce First Day of School is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

I haven’t seen any information about this on the district web site, but here’s how the Herald explained the new school food prices:

• Elementary breakfast will go from $1.10 to $1.25. Elementary lunch will go from $1.95 to $2.15.
• Middle and high school breakfast will go from $1.35 to $1.50. Secondary school lunch will go from $2.35 to $2.50.
• Adult breakfast will go from $1.75 to $2. Adult lunch will go from $3 to $3.50.
• Milk will go from 35 cents to 40 cents.

The school board voted unanimously to approve the new prices.

Food Prices Going up at Pasco Schools is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

The annual Running Start Parent-Student Information night is set for Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the Byron Gjerde Center on the CBC Pasco campus.

CBC Running Start Info Night is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

Pasco School District adds a day of school is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

He appears in the “Faces In The Crowd” section, which honors amateur athletes of all ages. You can see him here on SI.com, but in case that link goes away, here’s a screenshot:

It says “Richland” because, I presume, that’s where Will and his family call home.

TC Prep star in Sports Illustrated is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

The Jags set nine 1B-level records in winning their first 8-man football title. KEPR-TV put together a really nice highlight reel which I’ll embed here.

Congrats to everyone at Prep on the big win!

Congrats to Tri-Cities Prep: State Champs! is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

The Pasco School District will host tours this Monday at 7pm and 8 pm. They say the tour will last about an hour. It’s free and open to the public and no reservations are needed. Just show up and check out the new place. The school is located at 8125 W. Argent Road.

More info. on PSD1.org

Tour Chiawana High School on Monday is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

Pretty darn nice, isn’t it? They sure didn’t make high schools like that when I was a kid….

Tour of Chiawana High School is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

Pasco High is ranked at No. 853 in Newsweek magazine’s list of the top 1,500 high schools in the U.S. Pasco’s been on the list the past four years, but this is their highest ranking yet.

Here’s how Newsweek describes the ranking system:

Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way.

[where: Pasco High School, 1108 N 10th Ave, Pasco, WA 99301]

Pasco High Honored by Newsweek is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.

For 2010, the school’s operations budget has been cut by almost $3.5 million. Here’s what that means:

• enrollment will be cut by “up to one thousand” FTE students
• 55 staff and faculty positions will be eliminated – nine are F/T faculty, 27 are F/T staff positions, and 19 are part-time positions
• four educational programs will be discontinued – Autobody, Paralegal, Human Services, and daytime Fire Science

CBC is also losing almost $17 million from its capital construction budget. The Social Science and World Languages Center, which was due for construction in 2011, is history. Not gonna happen. The funding is completely gone. Other construction projects had their budgets cut, so CBC will have to make up those losses in other ways.

Wow. Can’t even imagine what the campus is gonna be like tomorrow as the news spreads around.

[where: Columbia Basin College, 2600 North 20th Avenue, Pasco, WA 99301]

CBC Hit Hard by State Budget Cuts is a post from the Pasco Real Estate Blog.