Seattle has 25 clinics in public schools to serve the health needs of students. Now King County is using dollars from the Best Starts for Kids levy, which voters approved in 2015, to open school-based health centers outside the city.

The drumbeat of complaints about Kent’s superintendent of public schools is growing louder. Last month, the Kent Education Association took a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Superintendent Calvin Watts, who has led the district of more than 27,000 students since 2015.

The Washington Supreme Court will hear arguments this Thursday in a case that has the potential to throw charter schools into turmoil. The plaintiffs in the case argue that the law passed by the legislature to allow charter schools is unconstitutional.

Many high school seniors and their parents are doing the math right now calculating how much four years of college is going to cost. What most don’t imagine is that they may have to pay for five or six years. Nationally, only two out of five college students finish on time.

An elementary school teacher in Burien will travel later this month to one of the most remote spots on earth. Melissa Cook, who teaches second grade at Hazel Valley Elementary School in the Highline school district, has been selected along with 39 other educators from the U.S. and Canada to join a National Geographic expedition to a set of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.

Getting the whole community involved in preventing drug and alcohol use by young people can have lasting effects. That’s the conclusion of a recent study published by researchers at the University of Washington.

This story was produced in collaboration with The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor’s degree.

Parents and teachers in the Kent School District are calling for the resignation of Superintendent Calvin Watts. One mother has started an online petition calling for him to step down.

Friday marks 19 years since two students opened fire on their classmates at Columbine High School in Colorado, one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

(Updated at 1:55 pm on April 20, 2018, to clarify how much more the new levy will cost an average homeowner.) The city of Seattle is planning to ask voters to approve a levy this November to pay for education programs for kids from preschool age all the way up to community college.