“We’re always full. We’re always full here,” said Lauria Oliver, owner of A Child’s Place child care centers in Yakima and Toppenish.
Throughout Central Washington, lack of child care is a years-old problem with significant ramifications.
West Valley School District Superintendent Michael Brophy has been placed on paid administrative leave pending “an investigation into allegations of policy violations.”
In light of a decline in community transmission of COVID-19, the Yakima Health District says it’s OK to reduce social distancing between the county’s middle and high school students to 3 feet.
Employers in Washington often find that child care in their communities determines their employees’ availability and commitment to the job.
Before he died in early 2020, Yakima's Cliff Plath established three state-of-the-art early learning centers in Yakima and Royal City. His work now serves as a model.
Selah and Toppenish residents voted in favor of renewing school levies in a special election Tuesday.
Wondering how to get child care assistance in Yakima? Why child care can be so hard to find? What impact this has on the local economy, or on young learners?
Voters in Selah and Toppenish have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to turn in their ballots in special school elections.
School districts can apply for high school graduation waivers in light of COVID-19 challenges to help students graduate this year.
Heritage University will resume full-time in-person instruction when its fall semester begins this August.
Students across all grades in the Sunnyside School District will return to in-person learning five days a week by the end of April, the school district announced Wednesday.
Classes at Yakima Valley College will stay primarily online through fall quarter, the college announced Wednesday.
For nearly four decades, an early learning program at Central Washington University has provided child care for the children of university students, faculty and staff.
While the federal deadline for individual tax filing was pushed back to May 17, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service has not postponed the April 15 deadline for quarterly filings. That means child care providers will need to finish filing this week.
Some taxpayers still have to submit payments by April 15 despite a filing extension amid the pandemic.
In the past decade, kindergarten enrollment in Wapato School District has never dropped below 200 students. Until this school year.
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County Commissioner Amanda McKinney, who introduced the Board of Health motion, said the board’s recommendation “specifically removes the metric requirements.”
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