For Dr. Trina Seligman, the decision to send her 3 and-a-half year-old twins to Living Montessori Academy was all about the food. At this private Bellevue elementary school, tuition includes an all-organic lunch: locally grown fruits and vegetables; lean proteins: chicken, legumes, tuna and seeds.
The Bellevue School District will gain a new alternative school next year.
Emmajin is a lead character in the new young-adult fiction book, “Daughter of Xanadu,” published by a division of Random House.
While the cold and rain keeps Bellevue residents covered and bundled up in February, they’ll be able to learn a warm and tropical tradition next month: hula dancing.
Starting in February, the trendy restaurant and tavern already a hit in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, Black Bottle, is coming to Bellevue.
Imagine finishing elementary school already possessing a skill that many American college graduates wish they had.
This is a reality for students who attend Bellevue’s Puesta del Sol Elementary.
Pick any Bellevue middle school, look around the classroom, then select four students randomly. At least one of them is being bullied by their classmates or peers. And in today’s digital age, e-mail, social networking sites, blogs and text messaging have extended the potential for bullying into cyberspace.
Life for a military couple is already challenging, but when army medic Jennifer Brooks (formerly Hatcher) got engaged, it was a rush to make it down the aisle before her man was redeployed. Jennifer who lives in New York, but was raised in Bellevue, had less than six months to plan her wedding, fine-tune the details and pick the perfect dress, as it turns out, on national television.
The city of Bellevue will pay tribute to the life of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), who’s revered by many people as the founding father of the democratic Republic of China (Taiwan) which will celebrate its centennial next year.
It’s time to break down the barrier between audience members and performers. At least, that’s what Eva Stone, choreographer and…
Bellevue Native Katherine Chloe Cahoon is author of “The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men.”
No matter who the child is, what their background or struggles are, Bellevue’s CRU Institute, a non-profit organization, has been helping out children since the late ’80s, working with schools to provide conflict resolution and peer mediation training in the Pacific Northwest, across the U.S. and abroad.
As a large, urban city, Seattle may have lots of fine dining options. But when it comes to Asian cuisine, the land of the 206-area-code have got nothing on what 425 has to offer.
With potentially massive budget cuts to K-12 education on the table, some students, parents and teachers wonder how the Bellevue School District will be affected.
When the Washington Legislature approved a plan to reduce the state’s $1.1 billion deficit, the education budget was cut severely, reducing the funding for Bellevue’s district by an estimated $1.1 million. If the state decides to further reduce the K-3 funding to the beginning of the fiscal year rather than February, this would result in an additional reduction of $630,000.
More proposed reductions may occur as the Jan. 10 regular legislative session approaches.
This fall, the U.S. Congress passed Edujobs legislation that provided Washington state with $208 million to create new jobs in K–12 education. The Legislature has now reduced the state’s K–12 budget by $208 million, eliminating those federal dollars intended for education spending.
While some districts have spent this money already, Bellevue placed these funds in reserve in the event the state decided to further reduce the K–12 budget; the amount held will simply be returned to the state.
Gov. Gregoire’s budget cut proposals include elimination of the K-4 class size reduction funds and the gifted student program. Other proposals include the suspension of various funding such as Initiative 728, which provides money to reduce class sizes, Initiative 732, which provides cost-of-living increases for teachers, planned increases in all-day kindergarten, annual bonuses for National Board certified teachers and annual step increases for teachers.
Jacque Coe, spokesperson for the district, said the city is fortunate to have the support of the Bellevue Schools Foundation, which raises supplemental funds for many important programs that support work in the classroom such as professional development.
In terms of the district’s specific concerns, Coe emphasized that it’s early to be worry, as the cuts are only proposed at this point; the legislature has not convened yet. The district will monitor the process and adjust accordingly to see if there are any other solutions legislators may be able to find, she said.
Two-thousand and eleven is the new year. It’s also the price that some Bellevue food lovers will pay to celebrate.
Changing the world is as easy as crocheting a hat. At least, that’s what Kohl Crecelius, 25, CEO and co-founder of Krochet Kids International believes. Crecelius may only be a few years out of the University of Washington, but he’s already one of the visionaries at the helm of an increasingly popular non-profit organization and hat company that visited Bellevue Square for a promotional trunk show last week: Krochet Kids International (KKi).
Although his 93 years took him throughout the Northwest, in and out of different clothing, lifestyles and relationships, the people who knew artist William Cumming say that their beloved friend was as colorful in personality as the vivid paintings that made him a local legend.
Green and red; yes, please and no thank you. That’s all it takes to get the churrascaria, or steakhouse, experience, and thoroughly enjoy meat in all its juicy, succulent glory at this all-you-can-eat restaurant that opened this fall. Meat chefs bring 15 different kinds of meat to each table and patrons are given a chip that’s green on one side, red on the other. They place the chip green-side-up to welcome more, or red-side-up to decline the meat when it’s offered.
