House Republicans offered a “fund education first” budget Thursday, highlighting what they depicted as $580 million more for K-12 public schools than Gov. Chris Gregoire’s budget would allocate.
Cuts in state support to higher education are attracting national attention and hurting the long-range prospects of Washington's universities and colleges, school leaders say.
The Steilacoom School District is asking for public input to help find a new principal for the town’s high school.
Despite signs that the state economy is improving, finding money to send children to college is still becoming more difficult.
The Steilacoom School District is asking for public input to help find a new principal for the town’s high school.
Kids in at least two Pierce County school districts might be able to avoid making up some class days lost to the January snow and ice storm.
The Pierce County Library System’s Teen Writing & Art Contest, Our Own Expressions, is under way. Students can earn cash prizes and have their works published in books for distribution in Pierce County libraries.
Annie Wright Schools will host a free screening of the film “FindingKind,” a documentary that brings awareness to the problem of female bullying, at 6 tonight at the school’s Kemper Theater, 827 N. Tacoma Ave.
The Sumner School District will offer an Early Learning Linkages Winter Workshop, designed for those who work with children up to age 8.
Washington universities won authority last year to vary undergraduate tuition rates according to what different degrees really cost. But before they start charging engineers more than English majors, schools are grappling with how it would affect the state’s prepaid tuition program.
Tacoma police arrested a 31-year-old campus security officer at Stadium High School on Friday on suspicion of second-degree rape and first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor, both felonies.
The mother of a boy hit by an Eatonville school bus and dragged more than 80 feet three years ago is suing the school district and the bus driver, alleging their negligence resulted in her son’s injuries.
Seven Pierce County school districts are hoping voters show them some love in a Valentine’s Day election that includes property tax measures to sustain school operations. One district, Franklin Pierce, is asking voters for help to upgrade outdated schools.
A divided Bethel School Board has approved a preliminary budget plan that does not include closing schools or changing to an all-day, every-other-day kindergarten schedule.
There is limited bus transportation in the Orting and White River school districts this morning.
Tacoma-based BLRB Architects is the firm recommended by a committee of Tacoma school officials and teachers to design a remodel for the historic Washington Elementary School building.
Military kids and the educators who teach them in South Sound schools can learn about the stresses of deployment at a new website developed by a Pentagon research branch at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Check out an updated list of schools that have announced they will be closed Friday.
Enjoy the snow, kids. It may get you out of school this week, but it also may keep you in class longer for makeup days once the weather warms up.
The Puyallup School District anticipates having to trim millions of dollars from its budget next school year, and it enlisted a committee of parents and other community members to identify ways to save.
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