Twelve Central Valley School District elementary schools and the Kindergarten Center, rallied in a pop top collection competition amongst schools to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Spokane. The schools raised over 1,150 pounds of pop tops which will cover about 24 nights of lodging at the Ronald McDonald house.  Adams Elementary parent volunteer Doug Cooper has headed this fundraiser for the past 3 years at Adams in the Valley and this year took the competition district-wide, challenging the other 12 schools to see how many pop tops they could bring in.

Test results show Washington high school students do well in reading and writing on statewide tests but fall short in science.

Of this year's tenth graders, only about half are passing the science assessment.

81 percent passed the reading test on their first try and nearly 84 percent passed the writing test.

Results from math tests will be released in August.

The high school proficiency exam is one of four state requirements for graduation.

Washington Fish and Wildlife biologists and volunteers are putting leg bands on a thousand Canada geese to study population trends in Eastern Washington.

Waterfowl specialist Mikal Moore says they're trying to understand why nesting is declining in rural areas while complaints about urban geese have been rising.

The banding project began this week and continues through next Tuesday. Geese are currently easy to catch because they are molting and unable to fly.