A reminder from new report: Washington’s schools are far from equitable
The pandemic threatens to worsen these systemic problems. “These school closures and the continuing challenge surrounding distance learning serve as a stark reminder of the...
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Sizable donation flows to Mukilteo school from former foster child who says time there changed his life
James Abbott wanted to 'help foster kids, like I was," by paying back the high school he says changed his life.
Washington schools are reversing course on reopening plans as coronavirus surges
Reopening schools to face-to-face instruction is likely to be many magnitudes more difficult than originally imagined, even though state health officials recently suggested it might...
Children with disabilities are left behind by remote learning
Even in pre-pandemic times, special education families were forced to fight their way through a bureaucratic special education system. Now some of them are invisible...
Children whose homes burned down in wildfires struggle to return to online schooling
Children in Bridgeport whose homes burned down this month are reeling from two crises: a global pandemic and housing insecurity.
Seattle students head back to school: ‘I felt so proud of these tenacious and patient students’ VIEW
Glimpses from Seattle's first day of school paint a mixed picture of delight when things went according to plan and frustration, when technical problems kept...
It’s an old-growth forest. It’s also home to a Washington school’s first foray into outdoor learning amid COVID-19. VIEW
At a time when thousands of children and their teachers are reinventing school on screens, some schools are experimenting with the polar opposite: bringing school...
Seattle-area parents, balancing school and childcare, find themselves in a new role: mental health responder
Children are facing isolation and uncertainty about their futures. Parents, schools and researchers are racing to understand how serious children's mental health concerns might become.
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