Seattle Public Schools is in the final stages of choosing new science curriculum and that process is now embroiled in controversy.

For high school students with test anxiety, there's good news. Starting next school year, the state will no longer require high school students to pass statewide assessments to graduate.

Going into the legislative session, many Washington school district officials said one of their biggest priorities was to get more funding for special education. Now that lawmakers passed a two-year budget and adjourned, some district leaders say they're disappointed in how much lawmakers approved for special education services.

Students at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School will be featured on national television Friday evening, as part of an episode of HBO's show " Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas ."

Now that lawmakers have passed a new state budget, school districts are busy figuring out whether they'll still have to make cuts for the coming school year. The Seattle school district, which has been facing a $40 million deficit, said it will no longer have to cut librarians, assistant principals and other school-based positions. The projected cuts to schools had totaled about 90 full-time positions.

Tacoma Public Schools has increased its graduation rate in recent years, though, as KNKX Public Radio has reported , some of the gain is due to a state policy that excludes students in dropout re-engagement programs from the calculations. Nevertheless, there has been growth in the number of students receiving a diploma. But that's not the case for the number of students going on to college.

This story is the third in our series, “Who’s Counted: Taking a Closer Look at School District Graduation Rates.” The first part of the series examined how dropout re-engagement programs are excluded from district graduation rates under a state policy, and the second part focused on how online schools that enroll students from across the state are also left out of district graduation rate calculations.

This story is the second in our series, “Who’s Counted: Taking a Closer Look at School District Graduation Rates.” The first part of the series examined how dropout re-engagement programs are excluded from district graduation rates.

This story is the first in a three-part series called "Who's Counted: Taking a Closer Look at School District Graduation Rates." The second and third stories will examine publicly funded online schools.

Librarians from Seattle Public Schools are gathering in Olympia on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers to allow the school district to raise more money in local levies and stave off planned reductions.