Nine days and counting.<\/p>\n
There will be no school Wednesday, Sept. 7 in the Kent School District due to the teachers’ strike over the lack of a new contract agreement. It will be the ninth day of the strike and no school.<\/p>\n
“Kent School District and the Kent Education Association (teachers’ union) continued to bargain on Tuesday, Sept. 6,” according to a district statement released Tuesday evening. “We thank our community partners for supporting students and families during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
The KEA said bargaining teams met in person on Monday and Tuesday. Teachers were back on the picket line Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
“Our unity now more than ever is important,” according to an union statement.<\/p>\n
School has been out since Aug. 25 at the 42 schools and academies in the district that has nearly 24,000 students and 2,000 teachers.<\/p>\n
The union’s primary goals are better pay, more mental health services for students and smaller class sizes and caseloads.<\/p>\n
After a tentative agreement is reached, it will take at least one day for schools to be ready to open, according to the district statement.<\/p>\n
“We thank you for your patience as we work to get students back in school and begin the school year,” according to the district statement.<\/p>\n
Free meals<\/strong><\/p>\n In partnership with the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the school district is able to receive a waiver to feed children ages 0-18. This meal service is intended to provide healthy meals for KSD students until the start of the 2022-2023 school year.<\/p>\n The free meals will begin Wednesday, Sept. 7 for children ages 0 to 18:<\/p>\n • Meals are grab and go<\/p>\n • Children do not have to be present for families to pick up meals<\/p>\n • Sites cannot accommodate large pick-up service<\/p>\n Sample Meals:<\/p>\n • Breakfast: Cereal\/breakfast bar, juice, milk, fresh fruit<\/p>\n • Lunch: Yogurt boats, WOWBUTTER sandwiches, cheese sandwich pocket (with heating instructions), fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, milk<\/p>\n Breakfast and lunch can be picked up weekdays at the times and locations listed below until school begins:<\/p>\n Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n Covington Elementary | 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 25811 156th Ave SE, Covington<\/p>\n Daniel Elementary | 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 11310 SE 248th St, Kent<\/p>\n Kent Elementary | 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 24700 64th Ave., Kent<\/p>\n Kentridge High School |10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 12430 SE 208th St, Kent<\/p>\n Kent-Meridian High School | 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 10020 SE 256th St, Kent<\/p>\n Neely-O’Brien Elementary | 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 6300 S 236th St, Kent<\/p>\n Pine Tree Elementary | 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. | 27825 118th Ave SE, Kent<\/p>\n Apartments<\/strong> – Look for a KSD school bus <\/p>\n Benson Village Apartments | 11:30-11:50 a.m. | 10820 SE 211th Pl, Kent<\/p>\n Brookside Apartments | 10:30-10:50 a.m. | 10841 SE Kent-Kangley Rd, Kent<\/p>\n Kentbrook Apartments | 10:00-10:20 a.m. | 9803 S 248th St, Kent<\/p>\n Knol Apartments (formerly LaMirage) | 11:00-11:20 a.m. | 11239 SE 260th St, Kent<\/p>\n Parkwood Apartments | 11:00-11:20 a.m. | 26435 104th Ave SE, Kent<\/p>\n Phoenix Court Apartments | 10:30 -10:50 a.m. | 23913 111th Pl SE, Kent<\/p>\n Polaris Apartments | 11:30-11:50 a.m. | 17110 SE 276th St, Covington, WA 98042<\/p>\n Village Green Apartments | 10:00-10:20 a.m. | 10433 SE Kent-Kangley Rd, Kent<\/p>\n Parks<\/strong><\/p>\n Soos Creek Mobile Estates Playground | 12:00-12:20 p.m. | 15410 SE 272nd St, Kent<\/p>\n Youth Centers <\/strong><\/p>\n Birch Creek Youth Center | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | 12910 SE 273rd St, Kent<\/p>\n Cascade Youth Center | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | 20524 106th Ave SE, Kent<\/p>\n Valli Kee Youth Center | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | 23401 104th Ave SE, Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contract talks continued Tuesday but no agreement reached; district to offer free meals, sites listed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":60028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}