In Washington state, only about a third of students ever earn a bachelor’s degree. In rural counties, it’s even lower. But in Chehalis, a Lewis County town in the southwest part of the state, educators are trying to build college fever.
Just 20% of kids got 4-year degrees, so Chehalis schools changed everything
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The Seattle School Board is considering a resolution that would encourage all its schools to teach ethnic studies.
Discipline
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While school suspension and expulsion is on the decline overall, the rates have spiked among Washington’s youngest students. One lawmaker wants to ban punitive discipline for kindergartners through second-graders.