{"id":12239,"date":"2013-02-27T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/state-lauds-3-kent-elementary-schools-for-achievement\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:40:34","slug":"state-lauds-3-kent-elementary-schools-for-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-lauds-3-kent-elementary-schools-for-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"State lauds 3 Kent elementary schools for achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent School District announced this week that three elementary schools \u2013\u00a0Glenridge, Jenkins Creek and Martin Sortun \u2013\u00a0were named Reward Schools by State Superintendent Randy Dorn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The designation goes to the top 10 percent of the state&#8217;s Title 1 schools in reading and math as calculated over a three-year period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;The purpose of the identification is to acknowledge the improvement efforts in our Reward Schools and continue to collaborate, support and improve,&#8221; Dorn said. &#8220;We have an obligation to ensure that each of our 1.1 million students in Washington has an opportunity to attend an excellent school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;On behalf of the school board, Kent School District is very proud these three schools received this excellent commendation,&#8221; said Kent School District Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas. &#8220;It shows the district working in the right direction toward ensuring that each and every one of our students is receiving an outstanding education that successfully prepares them for their future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Success doesn&#8217;t happen in a vacuum and this success has occurred because of our students&#8217; hard work and the commitment of the professionals in each of these schools and at the district office that support them,&#8221; Vargas added.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School District announced this week that three elementary schools \u2013 Glenridge, Jenkins Creek and Martin Sortun \u2013 were named Reward Schools by State Superintendent Randy Dorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":12240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}