Faculty members at Green River College, which has campuses in Auburn, Kent and Enumclaw, are on strike through Wednesday protesting proposed cuts to 11 programs, including criminal justice, French and occupational therapy. In response, the college’s board of trustees said it will file a request for an injunction to halt the walkout.

Here’s something you might not know: President Barack Obama’s mother graduated from Mercer Island High School. Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is in town this weekend to present a scholarship established in their mother’s memory. Soetoro-Ng told KPLU that she's not apolitical, necessarily, but she says when it comes to her relationship with her brother, President Obama, she prefers to focus on the family side of the equation. “I’m not like a Kennedy sibling," she told KPLU. "I try to offer a

A program credited with lifting the graduation rate and boosting student enrollment at Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School was going to be cut because of a lack of money. But now, it’s being saved, thanks to a Seattle non-profit.

Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish: These are the languages hundreds of students are learning in the Seattle School District. But funding is tight, which means the district is taking a hard look at its foreign language immersion programs. The district is wondering if these programs should be scaled back, expanded, or left as they are. There are five elementary immersion schools in Seattle. Students can choose to continue their language studies in middle and high school. In the elementary grades,

Several years ago Delaney Ruston, a doctor who specializes in internal medicine, started to notice that most of the kids coming into her office were glued to a screen.

The Tacoma School District says tests from last year reveal that three additional elementary schools and one other building that houses a Head Start program, have high lead levels. This follows the news from Monday that two other schools have lead in the water. The three new elementary schools are: Whittier, DeLong and Manitou Park. Parents received phone calls and emails telling them that the water in these buildings is unsafe to drink or use for cooking due to elevated levels of lead.

Drinking fountains are now off limits at two elementary schools in Tacoma after tests revealed high levels of lead in the water. District officials had this information available to them for almost a year, but only looked at it for the first time late last week. The schools are Mann Elementary and Reed Elementary.The district sent out an email and a phone message to all affected families. District officials said, “Tacoma Public Schools contracts for tests of water supplies at several elementary

Adults who are thinking about going back to college have more to ponder than whether the time and money they’ve already invested will count toward a degree today. They also need to get ready for the 21st-century workplace. One thing that holds people back from completing their degrees is wondering whether their liberal arts credits are relevant in today’s job market — where the higher paid positions are in high-tech. Even outside of technology, jobs descriptions, like those for administrative

It can be hard to know when to call 9-1-1. And once you're on the line, it can be even harder to stay calm, cool and collected. Eight-year-old Austin Holdt did just that -- and helped save his grandmother's life.

Space is tight and you will probably have to find a new home. This is the message the Seattle School District is sending to the before- and after-school childcare programs that are housed in elementary school buildings.