Library laptops for students taking hold: Lending refurbished computers has goal of ‘digital equity’
December 13, 2018 Spokane Public Schools and the Spokane Public Library are partnering to offer refurbished laptop computers that SPS students can check out from their local library. The program is in its infancy, with only 26 laptops checked out to Rogers High School...‘The need is critical’: Inpatient psychiatric unit for teens set to open this month
February 05, 2020 Inland Northwest Behavioral Health held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday for a new inpatient adolescent unit for teens experiencing mental health emergencies. The 25-bed unit on West Fifth Avenue and Browne Street is set to open in mid-February. It will...Excelsior Youth Center remodels classroom to promote life skills
December 14, 2018 SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — It took months of planning and countless hours of work but the students at the Excelsior Youth Center have a new life skills room. The room hadn’t been remodeled in 36 years. Now it’s got an updated look to better...Spokane students experience steep drop in isolation, restraint after Eagle Peak closure
January 23, 2020 Last spring, Spokane Public Schools took a leap. As Eagle Peak — a school for students with behavior issues — faced criticism for the way it disciplined kids, the school district decided to end the behavioral health program there. The plan was to...