Busy year for Cheney schools, culminating in capital levy passage - The year in review - top 10

CHENEY — It was a busy year for the Cheney School District, especially during the fall. The district was forced to adopt a policy allowing authorized students to be administered medical marijuana while on school grounds, and a threat of violence evacuated students at Cheney Middle School.

On the other side of the coin, a pair of teachers were honored regionally as teachers of the month, one at Salnave and the other the following month at Betz elementary schools.

But for most of the year, enrollment growth in the district was on everybody’s minds, culminating in the districts’ request to voters...