For the second time in less than a month, a coach in the Bethel School District in Pierce County is out of a job after posting inflammatory messages on social media.

Across the region, students, teachers and community members have been pushing for school districts to remove police officers from schools. In Seattle, the school board has now voted to indefinitely suspend its arrangement with the city’s police department . That program had placed five officers in Seattle schools that have large percentages of students of color.

Community and technical colleges are bracing for big budget cuts as Washington state faces billions in lost tax revenue.

Life has shifted in dramatic ways this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Two teens in Seattle — aware that they’re experiencing history in the making — decided to document those changes and produced a podcast about COVID-19 life from the high school point of view.

A very unusual school year is coming to a close and now the focus is shifting to what school will look like in the fall, given the pandemic. The Seattle school district is planning to let families know by the end of this week what the model will likely be .

Bitaniya Giday, 17, is the new Seattle Youth Poet Laureate for 2020-21, Seattle Arts & Lectures has announced. The young poet activist already is familiar to KNKX listeners after recently sharing her thoughts about police brutality and racism for our youth voices project, Take the Mic .

The protests over police killings of Black people have broadened into calls to dismantle systemic racism — including in schools. In Tacoma, a Black Youth Matters march on Saturday drew hundreds of people of all ages and races. One woman held a sign that said “No Cops in Schools.” Some children wore t-shirts that said “I can’t breathe” in honor of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes.

For many families, it will come as a relief to hear that the state superintendent said most schools should reopen in person in the fall. The abrupt shift to distance learning this spring was difficult for many students and families to manage. State Superintendent Chris Reykdal said it also had a disproportionate impact on students who lacked technology or internet.

UPDATE, 8 p.m.: Adds comments from Seattle Superintendent Denise Juneau. With nationwide protests over police brutality, community members and some educators in the Puget Sound region are calling for school districts to remove law enforcement officers from schools. School leaders in Minneapolis and Portland already have moved to take that step, and the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools said it's time to re-evaluate an agreement that placed officers in schools.