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Students, community members press district after $100,000 restoration funding was declined
Summary
Parents, students and former staff told the Highline School District board on Feb. 19 that the district declined to continue a contractor agreement that would have completed a student‑led forest restoration project and forfeited about $100,000 in Department of Natural Resources funding.
Community members, students and a former teacher urged the Highline Public Schools Board of Directors on Feb. 19 to explain why the district declined to continue a contract that would have completed a student‑led forest restoration project and made available roughly $100,000 in replacement grant money.
The speakers said the work began when Wells and Big Picture students designed and planted a restoration forest on the Woodside campus and later stewarded it. “Through all of this hard work, a relationship was formed with the Snohomish And King Conservation Districts, and funding was brought back to the site only to learn in an email that the Highline School District declined to continue the contract, thereby forfeiting the money given by DNR to complete the project,” parent Crystal German told the board.
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