As student poverty rates soared in “America’s Vancouver,” school officials converted more than half of the district’s campuses into one-stop shops for low-income and homeless families.
As need soars, schools rally behind families in Vancouver, Wash. — and other cities take notice
- UW study: Want highly trained teachers to work at high-poverty schools? Try offering them $10,000
- Two Seattle tech-training programs got millions in federal grant money, but only one succeeded. Here's why.
- Study: UW’s transfer student initiatives a model for other schools
- Washington ranked middle of the pack for education, higher overall on child well-being
- Faith and finals: King County schools adapt to growing Muslim population VIEW
- UW program helps disadvantaged students thrive in tough engineering college
- Meet the students writing about education and housing insecurity in Washington
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Parents and taxpayers, you have 6 days to tell state officials what you want out of Washington’s public schools
The survey, which closes early Monday morning, asks the public to rank the importance of several education issues ranging from language access to universal pre-Kindergarten. It also asks for ways that the state is impeding student success.
Washington state’s colleges lead the nation in training more teachers of color, study finds
In Washington state, the race and diversity of undergraduates studying to become teachers largely reflects the demographics of the colleges and universities that house them.
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Funding
Kent School District levy passing by five votes; most other King County measures passing
All the King County school districts had at least one passing levy or bond measure, except for Tahoma, whose three levies were all failing.
Higher Education
Americans owe three times as much for student loans as they did a decade ago
A new study shows who owes the most money on their student loans, and where they live across the nation. Washington residents fare well compared to the national average.
