K-12 education

A new Trump administration initiative could redirect hundreds of millions of dollars from the nation’s coffers to the pockets of Washington students in a first-of-its-kind nationwide K-12 scholarship tax credit program.

A pair of property tax levies are headed to November ballots in Cheney Public Schools.

Jill Wright thought she’d found a nurturing school built around critical thinking and a love of learning. Instead, she says, she watched her sons suffer years of what she now calls emotional and spiritual harm at the Oaks Classical Christian Academy.

This year, at least six states enacted laws trying to reduce the number of students chronically absent from school. The measures include requiring monitoring of absences and publicly releasing data, developing new guidance on the best ways to address the problem and increasing punishments for parents and guardians of chronically absent students. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing 10% or ...

The Highlanders and Pirates of Spokane will soon have home turf to defend.

Washington’s state-funded pre-K program is set to expand by an additional 2,500 slots for the upcoming school year.

Two former Mead High School students and their families sued the school district after the district took eight months to report the assaults that occurred in June 2023 at a football camp at Eastern Washington University. 

When the victim of a 2023 Mead hazing assault moves to a small town in Oregon, he now knows it will finally be a far enough distance to take his head off a swivel.

Playing Mead football was almost fulfilling a generational prophecy for one of the high schoolers assaulted and hazed at a 2023 football camp at Eastern Washington University.

A Mead High football player assaulted at a 2023 football camp would, as a fifth-grader, dress for football early in the morning for a late-afternoon practice, according to his father.

An attorney is asking Mead School District to pay $20 million to $50 million to his clients and their parents for failing to protect Mead football players and report hazing incidents at a summer football camp.

The Spokane Public Schools Board on Wednesday unanimously approved sending an educational programs and operations tax levy to voters’ ballots in November.

Right before Lewis and Clark High School senior Reagan Smith went on stage with the school’s 16-member Chamber Orchestra for the state competition, director Angus Nunes had nothing but confidence his students would do well.

A lot has changed in the 50 years since Cindy McMahon started working in education. Some of it, she initiated herself.

Lawsuits filed against the Mead School District by football players at the center of hazing events are heading to trial Monday.

Gusting winds may have forced a couple of pauses in the first eighth-grade graduation ceremony at the Ruben Trejo Dual Language Academy Friday, but it could not dampen the excitement of the 19 graduates and their families.

Sitting at the awards ceremony for the largest international high school science fair in the world this May, Ferris High School students Teddy Osborne and Anders Thogerson were a bit disappointed as the judge read off the fourth-place winners for projects in environmental science.

Ridgeline High School is located in Liberty Lake, a city that didn’t exist until the start of this century on land that wasn’t part of that municipality until just before the school opened in 2021.