Schools
LAKE COUNTY – With just a tad under two weeks of summer vacation remaining, school districts within Lake County released their COVID-19 pandemic reopening plans for the upcoming 2020-21 academic year. For the Arlee School District, school begins on Monday, Aug. 24. Arlee’s back-to-school plan uses a four-tiered system that is based on the level of coronavirus spread in the community. Grades K-6 will attend school Monday through Thursday for direct in-person instruction with class schedules designed to limit large gatherings in the library, gym, lunch area and the playground. Grades seven through 12 will be using a block schedule, which provides four classes a day. Block...
From UM News Service MISSOULA – A respected international ranking organization recently listed the University of Montana among the most impactful institutions in the U.S. for research. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2020 offers insights into the research performance of more than 1,000 major universit...
News from the Polson School District POLSON – The Polson School District summer meal program has been temporarily suspended – effective immediately – beginning on July 28. A district food service worker tested positive for COVID-19. The district has notified the Lake Cou...
LAKE COUNTY – As the academic school year creeps closer for students who are tentatively scheduled to return to area classrooms in late August, school district administrators throughout the county have been busily crafting reopening plans and preparing classrooms for a safe return. While a few schoo...
News from Carroll College HELENA — Carroll College announced today that the Carroll College Board of Trustees allocated funding to provide a COVID-19 test to every student as they return to campus this fall. Carroll College will be using a testing firm from which they have received both p...
News from the K. William Harvey Memorial Scholarship RONAN – Congratulations to Ronan High School seniors Brooklyn Kenelty and Christian Silgen for being selected to each receive a $1,000 K. William Harvey Memorial Scholarship for 2020. K. William Harvey was Superintendent of Ronan Schoo...
MONTANA — Governor Steve Bullock today directed $75 million from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to Montana K-12 schools to cover expenses incurred due to COVID-19 and take precautions to keep students and staff safe this fall. Governor Bullock said, “We must provide schools with every ...
News from the Charlo School District CHARLO – Yesterday afternoon, July 7, we learned that an employee tested positive with COVID-19. Two co-workers and two students had been in contact with the person. All are now quarantined and working with their healthcare professional. Adjus...
News from MSU POLSON – Juliana Marengo, a 2020 graduate of Polson High School, has been selected for the MSU Hilleman Scholars Program. The Hilleman Scholars Program is named after Dr. Maurice Hilleman, a graduate of MSU, who is credited with saving the lives of millions through his work...
ST. IGNATIUS – At Glacier Lake School, teachers don’t decide whether students are ready to graduate; instead, students create a thesis that details their values, community contributions, and plans for the future, and classmates decide whether graduates are ready to move on to the next phase of th...
