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Everett students test well Early results show their passing rate for the new exam, based on Common Core standards, is higher than the state’s. Herald staff and Associated Press EVERETT — The Everett School District last year bought thousands of Google Chromebooks and spent months training teachers, students and parents
how to use them. Educators were gearing up for a new standardized state test, the first to be taken entirely online. Now, they say the preparation seems to have paid off. The state released early results from the new Smarter Balanced
test Thursday morning. The state numbers won’t be broken down by school district until final scores are released in August, but districts have been getting their scores as tests are graded. So far, the passing rate for Everett students is higher than the state rate, district spokeswoman Mary Waggoner said. “We have seen that there’s about a 20 percent gap between
how we did and how the state did,” she said. “It’s really general right now, but the trendline is that we’re higher than the state scores.” That’s nothing new, she said. Everett also outperformed the state average on predecessors to the Smarter Balanced test, such as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. See TEST, Page A8
Honoring their Dead The Grateful Dead has three shows left, and local fans look back
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he long, strange trip is almost over. Some fans say the run of the Grateful Dead ended 20 years ago when the brilliant guitarist and reluctant icon Jerry Garcia died, just a month after his final concert
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with the band on July 9, 1995, at Soldier Field in Chicago. Others, such as Jeff Wagner of Lake Stevens, remained faithful to the rest of the band, who after Garcia’s passing alternately called themselves the Other Ones, the Dead and Furthur. The band will appear as the
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With a consistently low unemployment rate, and jobs in aerospace and other industries, people are drawn to this area, one expert says. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
Grateful Dead this weekend with a return to the Windy City for three 50th anniversary “Fare Thee Well” concerts at Soldier Field. Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart say these will be the last shows they play together.
Welcome to beautiful Snohomish County, the fastest-growing part of Washington state. You’ve probably noticed the extra traffic on the way to work or the portable classrooms outside schools. And it’s impossible to miss all those new neighborhoods sprouting up in — and around — Bothell, Marysville and Mill Creek. It should come as no surprise, then, that a recent state report shows Snohomish County leading all other Washington counties in population growth. The county added 16,600 people from 2014 to 2015, reaching 757,600 as of April 1. That’s a 2.2 percent rise, slightly ahead of Clark and King counties. “Snohomish County has been one of the fastest-growing counties for a long time; during the last 25 years, we’ve had a huge increase,” said Kristin Kelly, who represents Futurewise, an organization whose express purpose is to guide growth. “This is a desirable place to live and we want to make sure this continues to be a desirable place to live when more people arrive.” The numbers from the state Office of Financial Management, released June 25, showed that Washington’s population surpassed 7 million people. Snohomish County is a big reason why. Over the past year, only King County grew more in total numbers. Pierce County, population 830,120, remains larger than Snohomish County, but only added about half as many people over the past year. Nearly three-quarters of the increase came from net migration, or more people moving in than moving away. The rest came from natural increase, births over deaths. That differs from the trend over the past
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Jeff Wagner, a 50-year-old Boeing manager who’s also a musician, has seen the Grateful Dead in concert 44 times.
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