Editing Spokane, Washington (section)

==Education==
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===Public and private schools===
[[Spokane Public Schools]] (District 81) was organized in 1889, and is the largest public school system in Spokane, and the second-largest in the state, as of 2014, serving roughly 30,000 students in six high schools, six middle schools, and thirty-four elementary schools.<ref>{{cite web |last=Emerson |first=Stephen B. |title=Spokane: Early Education |work=Essay 8723 |publisher=HistoryLink |date=August 8, 2008 |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/8723| access-date = October 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=District Profile |publisher=Spokane Public Schools |url=http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/54 |access-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-date=January 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107015906/http://www.spokaneschools.org/Page/54 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other public school districts in the Spokane area include the [[Mead School District]] in north Spokane County, outside city limits. A variety of state-approved, independent [[charter school]]s and private and [[Parochial school|parochial]] elementary and secondary schools augment the public school system. The [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane]] manages ten such schools in & around the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catholic Schools, Diocese of Spokane |publisher=Catholic Diocese of Spokane |url=http://www.dioceseofspokane.org/find_school.php| access-date = December 7, 2014| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210201959/http://www.dioceseofspokane.org/find_school.php| archive-date = December 10, 2014 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===Higher education===
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Spokane is home to many higher education institutions. They include the private universities [[Gonzaga University|Gonzaga]] and [[Whitworth University|Whitworth]], and the public [[Community Colleges of Spokane]] system ([[Spokane Community College]] and [[Spokane Falls Community College]]) as well as a variety of technical institutes. Gonzaga University and [[Gonzaga University School of Law|Law School]] were founded by the Italian-born priest [[Joseph Cataldo]] and the [[Jesuits]] in 1887.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kershner |first=Jim |title=Gonzaga University |work=Essay 8097 |publisher=HistoryLink |date=February 21, 2007 |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8097| access-date = December 7, 2014}}</ref> Whitworth was founded in Tacoma, Washington in 1890 and moved to its present location in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |last=Arksey |first=Laura |title=Whitworth College |work=Essay 8125 |publisher=HistoryLink |date=April 21, 2007 |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/8125| access-date = May 22, 2019}}</ref> It is affiliated with the [[Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)|Presbyterian Church]] and had 2,500 students studying in 53 different undergraduate and degree programs as of 2011.<ref>{{Cite book |title=2011 College Access and Opportunity Guide |pages=458–478 |publisher=Center for Student Opportunity |location=Bethesda, Maryland |date=July 1, 2010 |isbn=978-1-4022-4405-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDjmMta1kfQC&pg=PA408}}</ref> While Spokane is one of the larger cities in the U.S. to lack a main campus of a state-supported university within its city limits, [[Eastern Washington University]] (EWU) and [[Washington State University]] (WSU) have operations at the [[Riverpoint Campus]] in the University District, just adjacent to downtown and across the Spokane River from the Gonzaga campus.<ref>{{cite web |title=WSU Spokane |publisher=Washington State University |url=http://spokane.wsu.edu| access-date = December 7, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=EWU Spokane |publisher=Eastern Washington University |url=http://www.ewu.edu/locations/riverpoint-campus.xml| access-date = December 7, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201160009/http://www.ewu.edu/locations/riverpoint-campus.xml| archive-date = February 1, 2014| url-status = dead}}</ref> [[Washington State University Spokane]] is WSU's health sciences campus and houses the school's [[Washington State University College of Nursing|College of Nursing]], College of Pharmacy, and [[Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine]].<ref name=ElsonSFloyd>{{cite web |title=WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine |publisher=Washington State University |url=https://medicine.wsu.edu/| access-date = August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Academic Programs |url=http://spokane.wsu.edu/admissions/academic-programs.html |publisher=Washington State University|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> The main EWU campus is located {{convert|15|mi|km}} southwest of Spokane in nearby Cheney, and WSU is located {{convert|65|mi|km}} to the south in [[Pullman, Washington|Pullman]]. In addition to WSU's health science presence in Spokane, there is also a four-year [[medical school]] branch affiliated with the [[University of Washington]]'s [[WWAMI Regional Medical Education Program|WWAMI]] program.<ref name=WWAMI>{{cite web |title=UW Medicine: Spokane |url=http://www.uwmedicine.org/education/md-program/admissions/applicants/wwami-first-year/wwami-spokane |publisher=University of Washington| access-date=October 9, 2014}}</ref> An international branch campus of the [[Mukogawa Women's University]], the Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, is located in Spokane.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute |url=http://www.mfwi.edu/ |publisher=Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute |access-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-date=December 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217124315/http://mfwi.edu/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Libraries ===
Serving the general educational needs of the local population are two public library districts, the [[Spokane Public Library]] (within city limits) and the [[Spokane County Library District]]. Founded in 1904 with funding from philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]], the Spokane Public Library system comprises a downtown library overlooking the Spokane Falls and five branch libraries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Branch Locations and Hours |url=http://spokanelibrary.org/index.php?page=branches |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141123164449/http://www.spokanelibrary.org/index.php?page=branches |archive-date=November 23, 2014 |access-date=December 7, 2014 |publisher=Spokane Public Library}}</ref> Special collections focus on Inland Pacific Northwest history and include reference books, periodicals, maps, photographs, and other archival materials and government documents.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ned M. Barnes Northwest Room Resources |url=http://www.spokanelibrary.org/index.php?page=research&cat=findthebest&id=50&sub=36 |access-date=October 12, 2014 |publisher=Spokane Public Library}}</ref>