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.
Washington State University is alerting 1 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by thieves who broke into an Olympia storage locker.
Cybersecurity experts are among the most sought-after workers in the tech field, and Washington colleges and universities are stepping up to help fill the many...
With lawmakers gridlocked over on a new budget and education funding, Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday called a third special legislative session. Without a new budget,...
Parents need to stop expecting their daughters to be clean and pretty all the time, Mae Jemison said. That’s one way they can encourage budding...
With the additional money expected to come in, revenues for the overall 2017-19 state budget are projected to be $41.7 billion, state-revenue forecasters said Tuesday.
The woman fatally shot by two officers Sunday enjoyed family barbecues, wrote poetry and as a mother of four was, “Doing it on her own,”...
Franklin High School is livestreaming its graduation ceremony this year for the first time, bringing children of immigrants closer to their faraway loved ones.
Deambra Johnson of Bellevue, a single mother who saw education as her path, pushed through poverty, violence and abuse to graduate from college. Now, she’s...
