Seattle Times

The state Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday that pitted the fear of stigmatizing an innocent teacher against the threat of allowing sexual predators in the schools to escape detection.

Seattle Free School focuses on community education by enlisting volunteers to teach others about their passions — at no charge — at public meeting places around the city.

The girls are working the streets with little or no substantive help from authorities.

PORTLAND — Oregon's highly touted small high schools this month graduated their first class of students who spent all four years in intimate academies intended to revolutionize the big American high school.

When it comes to the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), the class of 2009 appears to be in better shape going into senior...

Rickey Combs still doesn't think students should have to pass reading and writing on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning in order...

A Washington state task force charged with finding a way to adequately pay for state education is spending a few days this week listening to proposals to improve the way Washington teaches its children, but the ideas carry an expensive price tag.

School buses have to fill up, too: how Puget Sound-area districts are grappling with high fuel prices.

Broadview teachers worried about Laurence Hill's behavior with young girls, and told administrators — but their complaints died there, records show.

Nearly three decades after Seattle Public Schools integrated almost all its schools through busing, that racial balance is long gone. Leschi Elementary, about evenly...

The Everett teachers union says it will file a complaint against the Everett School District over the district's videotape surveillance...

Washington State University will cut the number of courses it offers by 20 percent, eliminate majors and minors, and redirect resources...

University of Washington rejects a record number of applicants
Any other year, Matt Sims probably would have been a shoo-in for the University of Washington. The 17-year-old is an Eagle Scout and has

Four years ago, the Washington state teachers union tried to replace Terry Bergeson as superintendent of public instruction by enticing a well-liked and well-known former superintendent to come out of retirement and run again. Judith Billings didn't make it past the primary.

Two Seattle high schools are among seven statewide that will lose a chance to add and strengthen Advanced Placement courses in math and science because a $13.2 million grant that Washington state won last year has been scrapped.