News & Announcements

Please click to read a message from Superintendent Perrins regarding a new legal requirement for school employees in Washington state. On August 18, 2021, Governor Jay Inslee announced a new directive legally requiring all K–12 school district employees to get a COVID-19 vaccination or a medical or religious exemption by mid-October. This proclamation does not apply to students.

Please click to read the back to school letters from the district and each building. It has information both from district and from each building about the upcoming school year.

Kick off the new school year at the Open House and BBQ, Wednesday, August 25th. BBQ at Gess Elementary from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm and Open House at each school from 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm.

WCAAP is partnering with the Washington State PTA to offer a virtual town hall-style forum at 7:00-8:00PM on August 17th to address parents’ questions and concerns about going back to school, including COVID-19 concerns, catching up on routine childhood vaccinations, COVID-19 vaccines, and behavioral health. Our thanks to WCAAP members Drs. Jasmin Zavala and Frank Bell for participating in the forum. We will also be joined by Lacy Fehrenbach, Deputy Secretary of Health for COVID-19 Response at DOH and Lisa Barrois, PhD, a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

https://www.wastatepta.org/event/back-to-school-healthy-strong-town-hall/