AH residents ask CSD to consider new local school

For the second meeting in a row, the Cheney School Board received pleas from audience members to consider building a new school in Airway Heights, or at the very least north of Interstate 90.

Area resident Kippie Shaddix, who spoke on such a need at the Aug. 21 meeting, claimed at the Sept. 11 meeting that “no thought or consideration” to a new school in Airway Heights was given when the district was pursuing construction of three new schools to meet growth demands in the district. District officials have cited this growth and the associated overcrowding as some of the reasons for passing a $7...