Mike Preiner’s tutoring project, seen during an afterschool program at Northgate Elementary, Monday, March 7, 2022, helps some of the most disadvantaged kids in Seattle public schools catch up in math. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Test scores just soared in the upper grades at one Seattle elementary school, Northgate, recouping all the lost learning of the pandemic, and then some. How?

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks with President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden after a meeting at the White House on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.

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Business & Tech

Shoppers pass each other in an aisle of sauces in the Viet-Wah supermarket on its last day open in Seattle. The grocery store has been in Little Saigon, in the Chinatown International District, for decades. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)

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Nation & World

Officers examine a damaged police vehicle following a clash between supporters of two Indonesian soccer teams at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Panic following police actions left over 100 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Yudha Prabowo) XJAK107 XJAK107

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Top Chef contestant Shota Nakajima now slings Detroit-style pizza at Kobo on Capitol Hill.

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Kaytlyn Gerbin trekked more than 120 miles in the North Cascades in about a week, connecting established high routes through the mountains to journey from Silver Lake near the Canadian border to Stehekin, Chelan County.

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Dan Kelleher, from Kirkland laughs after Pamela Girres, from Bellevue spotted a Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper through her telescope from a spot on the 520 bridge overlooking marshes near Foster Island in Union Bay by the University of Washington in Seattle, WA on September 28, 2022. Bird enthusiasts were drawn there after receiving an ebird-alert from ebird.org that the Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper had been spotted. Many sightings have occurred over the past few days. 221715
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Jupiter glows on Monday Sept. 26, 2022, as it is the closest to Earth than it has ever been in nearly six decades.
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People walk in the Luminata parade around Green Lake on Saturday, Sept. 24. Luminata is an annual lantern festival celebrating the autumnal equinox and organized by the Fremont Arts Council, held this year on Saturday, Sept. 24.
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