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Seattle Pacific University students and faculty assemble outside Demaray Hall on the university campus, tuesday, May 24, 2022 stage a walkout to protest the Board of Trustees deciding to maintain a discriminatory hiring policy against people in same-sex relationships. 220475

Seattle Pacific University students stage walkout over upheld discriminatory hiring policy

John Muir Elementary first-graders dash around the playground doing 24 laps at Move-A-Thon. The lion is the mascot for the school.

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It’s an event hosted by the PTA’s in Seattle Public Schools to raise money for schools in the southeast part of the district. The students will be running laps in the playground.

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Parents at 15 Seattle schools band together for more equitable fundraising VIEW

Hanford McCloud, 6th councilman with the Nisqually tribal council, teaches fourth graders from the North Thurston School District how to paddle a canoe during their visit to the Nisqually Cultural Center in DuPont Tuesday, April 26, 2022. He also shared with them Nisqually tribal stories.

The students were at the center to participate in day-long STEM workshops steeped in tribal history and traditions. This includes a range of activities from learning beading and weaving to learning about canoe journeys, studying the salmon migration and dissecting salmon.

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How the Nisqually Tribe is teaching students their history in a fresh way VIEW

Cleveland High School students walk out of school to protest change in principals VIEW

Tumultuous school year for Seattle students sparks upsurge of activism

Seattle Schools demoted principal over what she told families about COVID protocol, attorney says

Seattle Schools backs away from proposal to change class start times this fall

Why Running Start enrollment has dropped in WA

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