The Seattle Times Education section covers schools at the district, state and federal level. Topics include the University of Washington and other colleges; the Common Core and standardized testing; teacher pay and strikes; charter schools; school discipline; classroom teaching methods; and funding under the McCleary decision. Coverage also includes the Education Lab project.
The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to New York's requirement that schoolchildren be vaccinated against serious diseases, with no exemption for religious objections.
PTAs in Southeast Seattle have come up with a new formula to spread fundraising wealth based on a school's level of need.
A state law requires K-12 schools to teach "Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State." Here's how the Nisqually Tribe educates teachers and students...
The students called on administrators to either reinstate Principal Catherine Brown or give them a say in who becomes the next principal of the South...
Wearing a black velvet cap and purple graduation gown for the first time, Taylor Swift proudly accepted her Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa.
A swelling movement of students is gathering across the country to fight, in ways large and small, for the right to read books that adults...
