Transitional kindergarten coming to Medical Lake SD

MEDICAL LAKE — Holding its first live, in-person meeting in over a year on April 27, the Medical Lake School Board moved forward on adding a new layer of in-person learning for students when instruction begins in the fall of 2021.

Meeting in the high school auditorium, the board first heard about, and then approved the initiation of what is known as transitional kindergarten at Michael Anderson Elementary on Fairchild Air Force Base.

“It’s an exciting new program for school districts,” Superintendent Tim Ames told the board, adding the concept, “Gives kids the opportunity before they go to kin...