State Superintendent Chris Reykdal is holding two community forums this week – one in Port Angeles and another in Bellingham – to talk with people about school finance and priorities for the state's education system.

The Washington Board of Health has some news that will come as a relief to a lot of parents: the board is rewriting immunization rules with the aim of reducing the paperwork burden.

Thirteen school districts across Washington state asked voters to approve construction bonds, but it appears that less than a third won enough support. That’s prompting renewed calls for the state to change the 60-percent threshold for passage to a simple majority.

Experts on Central America and immigration will discuss the caravan of migrants heading to the U.S. border in a panel discussion Monday evening at the University of Washington. The forum is being sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

School districts are required to submit four-year budget plans to the state schools superintendent’s office under a new rule approved by legislators last year. In Tacoma, school district officials are grappling with deficits projected through the 2021-2022 school year.

It can be a daunting process for high school seniors to apply for financial aid in order to go to college. But they can get help at events taking place around the Puget Sound region and across the state. The Washington Student Achievement Council runs a program called the 12th Year Campaign that aims to help students fill out financial aid forms and college applications.

The city of Seattle is asking voters to approve a seven-year, $619 million property tax measure to pay for a range of investments in education. It combines two expiring levies and adds funding for community college tuition.

The Seattle, Highline and Kent school districts all had enrollment below their projections this school year. But the Bethel School District in Pierce County has seen an influx of students and the district is making another attempt to pass a bond measure to build and expand schools.

(Updated at 10:11 pm on Oct. 26, 2018, to add that Seattle Public Schools has reached an agreement with Durham Bus Service to add 15 extra buses.) Almost two months into the school year, parents in Seattle say there are still a lot of problems with school bus service. On Friday morning, the school district said on its website that 38 buses were late and 11 of them were delayed by two hours. A district spokesman said that number of bus delays is not unusual right now. Late Friday afternoon, the

More than 145,000 students in Washington state are eligible for special education services. But those can be expensive, and the state superintendent's office plans to ask the legislature to approve more funding in the next session.