Growing pains
Medical assisting instructor Marie Pollos holds class Thursday at Elevate Academy North in Post Falls.
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Seventh grader Scarlytte Erickson, center, prepares to measure milk for a recipe at Elevate Academy North in Post Falls. Also pictured: Titus Fife, left and Lillia Kenney, right.
From left, Dodge Lundquist, Joseph Goslin and Parker Taus, all juniors, work on framing a shed in a residential construction class Thursday at Elevate Academy North.
POST FALLS — A new career technical public charter school that was dinged for special education violations is correcting those errors and working to strengthen relationships with its families.
“We’ve realized, the population that we serve, we’re going to get more special education students,” Elevate Academy Special Education Director Stephanie Linder said Thursday. “We’ve learned. Those are growing pains. Like any other school would tell you, there’s things that we can do better. Learning from mistakes and growing, that’s what it’s about.”
Elevate Academy North opened in 2022 in Post Falls as a sixth-through-10th-grade school that has since added 11th grade and will add 12th grade next school year. As of November, the school's population included 48 students with individualized education programs, which describe a qualifying student's special education needs and detail how those needs will be met.
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