Local schools do well in national rankings
U.S. News & World Report has released its annual rankings of high schools across the nation. The rankings are broken down by state.
Here's how some local schools fared, with national rank in parentheses:
• No. 2 Basis Tucson (6)
• No. 4 Sonoran Science Academy of Tucson (144)
• No. 14 Canyon del Oro High School (1,159)
• No. 15 Ironwood Ridge High School (1,179)
• No. 20 Luz-Guerrero Early College High School (1,316)
• No. 28 Flowing Wells High School (1,751)
Green Fields marks 1989 exchange
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In 1989, Green Fields Country Day School was the setting for the first exchange between USSR and American high school and middle school students. The school commemorated that event with a reunion of sorts Oct. 29.
George Kostylov - the Ukrainian headmaster whose school took part in the 1989 exchange - and then-Green Fields headmaster Phineas Anderson returned to the school to speak to current students about the Cold War.
In 1989, the Soviet students attended Green Fields for five weeks and rode in the Tucson Rodeo Parade.
$3K donation means kids eat on weekends
Thanks to a donation from the Dove Mountain Rotary Club, 20 Marana Unified School District children from low-income families will have meals to take home over several weekends this year.
The club donated $3,000 to the district, which will use the money to provide children with take-home weekend meals.
MUSD offers the weekend Power Pack nutrition program to about 110 students at Estes and Roadrunner elementary schools. School officials identify kids in need of assistance.
The program, funded by private donations, costs $150 per student. The district would like to expand it but lacks funding.
Coronado student wins poster contest
Kiara Lane, an 11-year-old sixth-grader at Amphitheater Unified School District's Coronado Middle School, won a local poster-making competition sponsored by the Catalina/Oro Valley Lions Club. She beat 32 other entries.
The theme of the contest was "Imagine Peace." Entries were judged on originality and artistic merit.
"When I imagine peace, I think of calming waves in a flow of happiness," she said in a news release.
Kiara's poster advanced to the district level.
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