A cautionary tale for the juvenile system: A boy alone, adrift and armed | Claudia Rowe
The story of a teen convicted of murder who twice escaped from youth prison sounded terrifying. The truth, while no less frightening, is a lot...
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Claudia Rowe
Housing: A solid foundation for family reunification after foster care | Claudia Rowe
The child welfare system makes parents jump through myriad hoops to prove they are safe to be around kids. But helping them find stable housing...
‘Those were the darkest days’: How key budget cuts fueled Washington’s opioid crisis
Facing a budget crisis during the Great Recession, state lawmakers made key cuts to anti-addiction programs. Those actions are still reverberating today.
The opioid crisis comes to the classroom as soaring numbers of children born in drug withdrawal reach school age
From Washington to West Virginia, the number of children born in withdrawal from opioids and other drugs has skyrocketed, and those babies — now elementary-school...
Facing opioid and foster-care crisis, Spokane’s Rising Strong seeks to keep families together
The opioid epidemic has caused a surge in children being separated from their addicted parents, flooding the foster care system even as research shows worse...
The nation’s opioid crisis is taking its toll on children across the Puget Sound region. Here’s how schools could offer hope
The nation’s opiate addiction crisis draws attention but less visible are the effects on addicts’ children, in school. Across the Puget Sound region, these kids...
David Moberly, who led Seattle schools through desegregation, dies at 89
Former Seattle Public Schools Superintendent David Moberly, who came to national prominence during the city’s battle over desegregation, died last week at age 89.
‘Hidden gem’ for families confronting cancer treatment, Hutch School to close after 30 years
With its small, multi-age classrooms, the Hutch School provided a tailored education to the children and siblings of cancer patients, the only accredited K-12 program...