The determination to delay the start of, or close schools is made very early in the morning.  The target is to make the decision no later than 5:30.  Once the decision is made there are FIVE different types of communication set up.

Voters of the Woodland School District will have the opportunity to approve a two-year replacement levy via mail ballot from the end of January to February 14^th 2011.

WHS Future Business Leaders of America (FLBA) participated in the annual Walk N Knock on Saturday, Dec. 3. Fourteen FBLA students walked and knocked collecting canned food for the Woodland Community Service Center.

All school offices will be closed from December 22^nd through January 2^nd for winter break.

On Tuesday, November 16^th, the Woodland Middle School LEGO Robotics Team, The Seabots, went to the Lewis River Fish Hatchery to study the "cold chain" process of donated Coho Salmon that goes to the North County Food Bank in Battle Ground. The cold chain is a record of the time and temperature that food goes through from the moment it is harvested to the moment it is purchased or given to the consumer.

The Woodland School Board approved bond request recommendations from an advisory committee on Monday, November 14, to build a new high school on the Dike Access Road property owned by the District. Superintendent, Michael Green, was directed by the Board to proceed with the committee's recommendations.

If you have been following the news lately you know that the revenue projections for the state of Washington have gone from bad, to worse, to downright awful.   The legislature will be meeting on November 28^th make additional cuts to state spending of up to $2 billion.  In advance of the special session the governor has announced a proposal for budget reductions for the current year and into the future that would amount to about $720,000.  You can see the proposals and the impact here.  One of the biggest areas of reduction proposed by the Governor would be in levy equalization (technical name is "Local Effort Assistance" or LEA).  The funds we receive in LEA are intended to balance the burden of local school taxes on property poor school districts, like Woodland.  In Woodland, that funding would be eliminated; a hugely disproportionate impact on school funding in Woodland and all of Southwest Washington.   Our district would lose over $300,000 while schools in the Seattle area, with M&O levies grandfathered at $30+% would not lose a dime.

Mr. Kovalenko and Mrs. Schlenz's third grade classes created and painted a patriotic wall mural in the main hall of the Primary School.

Three Woodland High students were honored as scholars by the Hudson's Bay Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Congratulations go to Katherine Rietman (Math), Shalisha Traffie (Science) and Natasha Lamb (Technology).

Yale Elementary received a $5,000 Student Achievement Grant from the NEA Foundation to create and maintain an outdoor organic learning center. The hub of the learning center will be a greenhouse where students will plant flowers and vegetables throughout the year. Congratulations and thanks to Kyle Niekamp and Kim York who wrote and won the grant!