King County leaders are beginning to narrow their options for how to spend more than $300 million for education over the next 15 years.

Thousands of students in Washington state enroll in online schools every year, but it’s difficult to figure out who the students are and why they’re opting for online programs instead of attending brick-and-mortar schools. Data from the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction show that almost 10,000 students enrolled in the state’s three biggest online schools in the 2017-18 school year.

It's graduation season, and it's an accomplishment for everyone who reaches that milestone. For one mother of three who came here as a refugee from Somalia as a teenager, that degree will help fulfill a promise she made to herself long ago.

Community and technical colleges across Washington state are working to increase the percentage of students who graduate or transfer to another college or university. Peninsula College in Port Angeles has had the biggest increase in the past five years. The college’s rate of full-time students graduating or transferring to another college has jumped by 47 percent since the 2013-14 school year. The school’s rate reached 62.1 percent this school year, according to statistics from the Integrated

UPDATE, June 11: Clarifies identification of Tacoma Completes initiative. School bus after school bus rolled up to Tacoma's Eastside Community Center on a recent Friday morning. High school seniors stepped out and were greeted by people cheering and waving pompoms — a welcome crew from the University of Washington Tacoma. The high schoolers were there to participate in an event called What’s Next — a chance to meet students from other Tacoma high schools heading to local colleges in the fall and

After a lengthy meeting with a lot of debate Wednesday night, the Seattle School Board voted to approve new science curriculum that some community members and one former board director urged them to reject.

Computer coding and software jobs have become linchpins in Seattle's economy. But Seattle Public Schools has been outpaced by nearby school districts when it comes to providing computers to students. Now the Seattle district is asking the school board to approve a $12 million purchase to try to catch up, including by providing all ninth graders with a laptop starting this fall.

Washington lawmakers voted to make public college or university tuition free for students who come from families earning less than about $50,000 a year. That will become a guarantee starting in the 2020-21 school year. They also expanded eligibility for the grant, so students from families that earn up to about $90,000 will qualify for partial tuition assistance. Officials at private colleges and universities said it’s good news for them, too.

In recent years, there's been a big jump in the number of public school students experiencing homelessness in Washington. More than 40,000 students were identified as homeless in the 2016-17 school year, an increase of more than 30 percent from the 2012-13 school year. A new performance audit from the state auditor's office recommends ways that school districts could do more to help those students, who often suffer significant academic setbacks due to their lack of stable housing.

May 17 is the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that said segregating public schools by race was unconstitutional. Many public schools in Seattle remain segregated in spite of past efforts to address that, including several decades of busing. A national nonprofit group, Integrated Schools, is hosting an event on Thursday, May 16, examining racial divides in Seattle schools, what’s worked and what hasn’t worked and “how to disrupt segregation now.”