The median residential property tax bill rose 21% between 2022 and 2023.| Montana Free Press
The Kalispell Public Schools (KPS) will move forward with the creation of two in-district charter schools after the Montana Board of Public Education last week approved two of the district’s four charter proposals. The board green-lighted Kalispell Rising Wolf Charter and Flathead PACE Academy Charter, two high school charter programs that will be located within […]| Flathead Beacon
In 2013, the Marion School, a small public elementary and middle school in rural Flathead County, enrolled 101 students from kindergarten through eighth grade. The school, which pulls students from in and around Marion — up to Ashley Lake and down to the borders with Lincoln and Lake counties — prided itself on its small […]| Flathead Beacon
After Lakeside Elementary School found itself without a single special education teacher ahead of the 2023-24 school year, the school’s principal, Steffanie Broyles, moved her office into one of the special education classrooms. That way, students could come to Broyles for extra support as substitute teachers oversaw the classrooms once staffed by certified special education […]| Flathead Beacon
“I just think there could be a lot of different ways to justify self-defense,” Katie Clarke, a member of the Whitefish School Board, said, sitting around a table in the board’s meeting room at a policy committee meeting in mid-July. “Yeah,” Whitefish School District Superintendent Dave Means said. “This is going to be really difficult […]| Flathead Beacon
The $1.5 million high school levy intended to fund academic programs, technology, curriculum, salaries, and general operations for the Kalispell public high school district met a resounding defeat at the hands of voters Tuesday night. Preliminary results of the Kalispell Public Schools (KPS) elections provided early Wednesday morning showed the levy garnering just 5,706 votes […]| Flathead Beacon
For the second time in nine months, voters shot down a bond proposal to renovate Deer Park School, the oldest continually running school in Flathead County. Mail ballots for the $1.85 million bond were due May 22, and the final tally came in at 203 votes against and 165 in favor. The bond would have […]| Flathead Beacon
Voters rejected the West Valley School’s effort to pass a $3.5-million bond to fund a school expansion last Tuesday. District residents voted the measure down 678 to 422. West Valley School District Superintendent Todd Fiske said he was pleased by the high voter turnout, coming in at roughly 56 percent, but he had hoped for […]| Flathead Beacon
“It’s been a long haul. Actually, it’s been an almost two-year process,” says Superintendent Russell Kinzer, “We’re definitely a little tired.” And a little disappointed. Bigfork’s Board of Trustees put out a request to voters; $11.1 to update the high school and $5.5 million for the elementary school. The high school bond failed, but the […]| Flathead Beacon
Whitefish voters on Tuesday rejected a $33.7 million bond that would have funded a major expansion of Whitefish High School and its adjacent athletic complex, marking the unsuccessful culmination of a more than year-long campaign by parents, educators and the Whitefish School Board to expand the campus ahead of projected growth in the school district. […]| Flathead Beacon
Kalispell voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected four proposed levies that would have funded safety and technology infrastructure in the Kalispell Public Schools. The failed levies marked a defeat for the district in its efforts to bolster programs that fall outside of traditional funding mechanisms and signaled a reluctance by voters across the Flathead Valley to […]| Flathead Beacon
Find out how much the U.S. spends on public education and how the costs break down per student, by state and by level of government.| Education Data Initiative
