As of Feb. 24, students at Lincoln Elementary School will be dismissed give minutes later each day until the end of the year to make up for the instructional time lost when the school was closed Dec. 17 due to a police investigation that included school grounds. State law allows for one day of lost instructional time due to emergencies
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Great Falls Rising is hosting a panel discussion at 6 p.m. Feb. 25 on the upcoming school levy. The event will be held at the episcopal church at 600 3rd Ave. N. The event starts at 6 p.m. with a short meet and greet and the panel begins at 6:15 p.m. The panelists are: Jan Cahill: chair of the Great
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Great Falls Public Schools are closed Feb. 10, according to the GFPS and the Great Falls Police Department, for an ongoing police investigation. According to GFPD, “expect to see a police presence at all schools throughout the day. We will update you with more details as they become available. We realize this is an inconvenience for your family, but the
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From a 500-square foot space and about 20 students to now owning an entire downtown building and about 145 students, the Bass Clef School of Music and Fine Arts has come a long way in five years. Tim Bass, the school’s owner, said that when he started, “I would have never imagined four and half years later I’d be here
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Registration for the Montana Region II Science and Engineering Fair is now open. Great Falls College Montana State University is hosting the elementary fair for grades K-5 on March 10, and for middle school and high school students grades 6-12 on March 12. Register for the science fair here. More than 300 students from all around north-central Montana will bring
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The graduation rate for Great Falls Public Schools for the class of 2019 was 83.38 percent, up 3.35 percent from the previous, according to district officials. Heather Hoyer, the secondary assistant superintendent at GFPS, reviewed the dropout and graduation rate data for the school board during their Jan. 27 meeting. For the class of 2019, there were 109 dropouts, versus
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The Great Falls Public Schools board voted during their Jan. 27 meeting to set the trustee election for May 5. State law requires the board to file a resolution calling for the election by Feb. 25, or at least 70 days before the election. They also passed a resolution calling for a mail ballot, which will cost the district an
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The Great Falls Public Library is inviting all library workers in the entirety of Cascade County to a “Library Invitational.” “Sharing information is what libraries are all about,” Katie Richmond, GFPL program coordinator, said in a release. “So it makes sense to coordinate between all of us to make sure we are keeping communication lines open, and exploring the resources
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Filing opened last week for three seats on the Great Falls Public Schools board. Each of those are three-year terms. Those seats are currently held by Jason Brantley, Jan Cahill and Kim Skornogoski. Filing is open through March 26 and the election is scheduled for May 5, 2020. Three candidates file for three GFPS board seats; no election in May
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The Great Falls Public School Foundation announced $418,200 in donations for Longfellow Elementary School during the Dec. 16 school board meeting. Several donors contributed for different projects at the school, which is currently under construction. The school at 1100 6th Ave. S. was torn down and a new building is being constructed on the site. In the meantime, students are
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