If we measure work the way we normally do, in dollars, we owe the 554 students assembled at the Hotel Murano this week about $1,206,966 worth of thanks.
United Way of Pierce County honored 554 high school students who volunteered upwards of 145 hours each over the last year. Here are these outstanding scholar-volunteers.
Two Pierce County education administrators and a third candidate from Minnesota are the finalists in the search for a new president to lead Bates Technical College.
Two Pierce County education administrators and a third candidate from Minnesota are the finalists in the search for a new president to lead Bates Technical College.
An important issue at the heart of the debate on public education in Washington is in the hands of a rather obscure group.
A coalition of Washington education groups has filed a citizen initiative asking voters to allow 40 public charter schools in the state over the next five years.
A Tumwater High School student has been expelled and faces felony harassment charges after he allegedly threatened repeatedly to kill a fellow student.
Together, Mr. R and Mr. J twin brothers also known as Ryan and John Prosser team-teach social studies and language arts at Giaudrone Middle School in Tacomas South End. They arrived at the start of the 2010-11 school year, the latest in a long line of tandem career moves for the pair.
A state audit released Monday raised questions about whether Tacoma Public Schools is adequately checking student eligibility for its free and reduced-price student meal program.
When Ryan Sutherland wanted to go to college three years ago, his father, Steve, went with him. Not just for a visit, but to stay. The father and son, from Cashmere, have been dorm roommates at Whitworth University in Spokane since Ryan started there in 2009.
Pierce County students submitted 1,233 poems, short stories, drawings and photographs in the “Our Own Expressions” contest sponsored by the Pierce County Libraries. Winners were selected based on originality, style, general presentation, and evidence of skill appropriate for the student’s age.
Mayor Marilyn Strickland’s Education Task Force and KBTC Public Television will host a community conversation about the “Myths and Realities of Public Education” from 6-8 tonight at the University of Washington Tacoma’s Carwein Auditorium.
Students at Pioneer Middle School in DuPont got a lesson in baking bread from scratch earlier this month, compliments of the Vermont-based King Arthur Flour Co.
1967: Washington Legislature passes a bill to create a new, public four-year college in Olympia.
Memories are a big part of The Evergreen State Colleges 40th anniversary celebration, which launched last fall and will continue today and Sunday with seminars, lectures and discussions about everything from sustainability to entrepreneurship.
Evergreen’s Tacoma campus has had several homes during its decades-long history in the city, director Artee Young says.
The idea behind Kent’s Kinder-to-College program is to plant the seed early for higher education. The South King County kindergarteners have been visiting college campuses throughout the Puget Sound area. By the time the school year ends, nearly 900 kindergarteners and 200 parents will have taken part in the tours.
The Tacoma Education Association will have two new leaders in July.
University of Washington Tacoma professor Charles Emlet has been selected as a Fulbright visiting research chair in science and the environment at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He is the sixth UWT faculty member selected as a Fulbright scholar.
Pierce College has been selected to join the Achieving the Dream National Reform Network.
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