Has your Cascadia student outgrown spirit wear they’d like to pass on to a fellow schoolmate for the 2023-2024 school year? The PTA is collecting clean, gently worn Cascadia spirit wear items for free distribution at the school’s “Meet Your Teacher” event in early September. A collection box for donations will be located in the …

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Talent Show on Thursday June 8th at 6:00 in the gym, with an Art Walk beforehand that starts at 5:00.

Dear Cascadia Community, the PTA would like to invite you to our spring General Membership Meeting on May 31st at 7:00 PM.  This will be a hybrid meeting, in the Cascadia Library and also on Zoom.  The Zoom link will go out via the Dragon Digest email list.

During this meeting, there will be a …

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Join us for the Cascadia PTA’s Friday Family Movie Night this Friday, March 31st. Closing out Women’s History Month (March) we’re hosting a screening of the Pixar classic “Brave”. This empowering tale is not your typical “princess movie” and is rated 8+ by Common Sense Media. The first Pixar movie to revolve around a female …

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There seems to be a lot of misinformation and confusion circulating recently about the future of the HCC program and also a lot of questions we’re hearing from prospective Cascadia families.  People are wondering about math pathways, whether kids can stay at Cascadia as the HCC program sunsets, what’s the deadline to decide to switch …

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Cascadia has several events coming up for prospective families, including some recently-added daytime school tours:

Prospective Family Tours on April 3 and April 6 at 9:00 AM – must register in advance here: https://cascadiaes.seattleschools.org/news/welcome-prospective-families/  These are student-led daytime tours, in-person at the school.

PTA Coffee Chats for Prospective Families on April 18th at 11:00 AM …

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Serving on the board of Cascadia PTA is a great way to support the school, make it a better place, get to know other parents, learn what’s going on, and have fun. The nominations committee is currently searching for PTA board chairs for school year 2023-2024. We need people with many different skills. Most roles …

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Come join your classmates on Friday, March 3rd for “Akeelah and the Bee” as we honor the end of Black History Month and the start of Women’s History Month with this powerful story of an intelligent and charming young Black girl who finds she has a gift for spelling.

The Commons will open at 5:30pm …

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The following is an open letter to the Washington State Legislature from our PTA on the Special Education Funding Gap. It should show up as an embedded PDF below or follow this link.

School districts are required by federal law to provide Special Education supports for all students that need them. However, Washington State caps the amount it will pay for these services, and so Washington school districts are being shorted about $400,000,000 per year for these costs. This shortfall has a big impact on the budget of …

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