Board approves all-day kindergarten

All-day kindergarten is coming to the Medical Lake School District this year, although it took some effort to make it become a reality.

After several years, the district’s revenue level is projected to be back where it was in the 2007-08 school year, which aided the process. At the Tuesday, July 23, school board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Pam Veltri said Medical Lake was about 40 buildings behind those that were selected on a list for all-day kindergarten funding. As a result, the district needed to scrape together some money to make it happen, part of it coming from additional Learning Assis...