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GIX opening in Spring District

BSD officials support later high school start time Board to vote in September BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER

will be addressed through project-based learning at GIX, with the goal of “common prosperity,” Yong said, adding more global research universities are expected to join GIX in the future. GIX is slated to open in fall 2016, the first phase of construction calling for a 100,000-squarefoot campus. Its first program will only include about 40 students, said interim UW President Ana Mari Cauce, but enrollment is

Officials from the Bellevue and Mercer Island School Districts are recommending the Bellevue School District Board move the high school start time up to 8:30 a.m. beginning in fall 2016. Deputy Superintendent of Instructional Leadership Eva Collins presented the report to the board on Tuesday. Collins and the 12-person committee charged with conducting a study of the potential benefits and challenges of a later start time found that shifting the current bell schedules, start and end times is feasible and has the community’s support. “Ultimately, we could see that there was significant support for a later start time,” said Collins. Around 11,500 people responded to and approximately 3,000 people commented on an online survey. Around 60 percent of those surveyed opposed the existing 7:30 start time, while 71.3 percent and 74.3 percent supported an 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. start, respectively. The committee met with parties that would potentially be affected by the change during their recommendation

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The University of Washington and Tsinghua University — a Chinese research university — announced Thursday a partnership to create the Global Innovation Exchange in Bellevue’s Spring District.

UW, Tsinghua U partner for graduate institute BY BRANDON MACZ

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The University of Washington has partnered with a Chinese research university to create a graduate institute in Bellevue’s Spring District — with $40 million in foundational backing from Microsoft — that will host international students and faculty set on finding global solutions

Arrest made in February strangulation death in vacant apartment Kent man facing second-degree murder charge

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in King County Court, where he faces a seconddegree murder charge for the February strangulaBY BRANDON MACZ tion death of Annelise Justin Bacani BELLEVUE REPORTER Harrison in a vacant Bellevue apartment. The 35-year-old Seattle transient Justin M.G. Bacani was ordered was reported to have been datheld on $5 million bail Wednesday

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