About 68.5 percent of voters marked their approval for the heftiest education levy in city history, but thousands of ballots still need to be counted.
Seattle’s $600 million-plus education levy approved widely
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- The state auditor’s office found many Washington principals don’t share student crimes with teachers regularly. Here’s why.
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- Washington voters don’t think schools prepare kids for careers. The state is trying to change that.
- Seattle schools adjusted levy's priorities to make it more fair, but alienated some families in the process
- Washington students struggle without stable housing: ‘The problem is bigger than we thought’
- UW students publish online ‘rape list’ out of hopelessness
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The new dean of the debt-plagued University of Washington dental school says the school has turned a corner on its financial problems, but across the university, last year's $325 million deficit is a growing concern.
