Washington state’s public-school students are more diverse than ever, but the teacher workforce doesn’t represent them. In some regions, school districts employ only a few...
Data analysis resulted in stories, map and graphics that compare student and teacher diversity in Washington state schools.
A California program was helping more black students earn college credit and graduate, so Highline College replicated it in Washington. Three years later, it's succeeding...
Students living with all sorts of housing instability — no matter how and where they find a place to sleep — suffer academically, according to a new report....
The UW campus in Seattle and branch campus in Bothell both received scores among the highest 15 in the nation. However, "It's not like anybody...
Test scores for English learners, who make up 12.5 percent of Seattle Public Schools students, are worse than they were four years ago.
The number of homeless students continues to overwhelm districts throughout the state. Educators have become the first, and in many cases the only, line of...
James Dorsey is the new president of College Success Foundation, one of the state's largest foundations that helps low-income students go to college.
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...
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