Saghalie Middle School is gearing up to launch a new math and science-focused academy set to start next September. Federal Way School District officials say the academy will prepare students to be “successful in the jobs of the future.”
South King Fire and Rescue firefighters will give up a cost of living increase in 2011 because of anticipated budget shortfalls.
Do you know who represents your neighborhood on the Federal Way Board of Education?
Proverbs 22:7 is pretty clear: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” In other words, don’t go into debt.
The value of homes has dropped 2.6 percent in the Seattle area in one year, according to the Case-Shiller home price index released last week by Standard and Poor’s.
The amount of homeless students attending public schools in Washington has increased by almost 8,000 since 2005.
The Seattle area is not known for its jazz scene — not like New York, New Orleans, Chicago or Kansas City, even.
If the state’s projected deficit is projected to be billions bad, bet that it will be felt at the local level — especially in public schools.
Daniel Lee was shocked when, in November, he learned that North Korea had shelled an island off of South Korea.
It was South King Fire and Rescue’s annual toy and food drive, a tradition that dates back to the 1950s and started with just 20 families.
A 12-year-old student was emergency expelled from Lakota Middle School on Dec. 10 for sharing her prescription antihistamines with three allergy-suffering classmates.
At each meeting of the South King Fire and Rescue commissioners, Jerry Galland brings a video camera and sets it up on a tiny tripod so he can tape the proceedings.
She taps on her chest and in a weary voice says, “It’s empty in here.” The boy she helped raise from birth has been gone for just over one month.
For Steve Lynch, the inspiration to pick up a guitar came in 1964, when he witnessed his sister and her friends go crazy over The Beatles album “Meet The Beatles.”
The Federal Way School Board voted to retain president Tony Moore at Tuesday’s meeting, but the vote was not unanimous.
It turns out that you, in fact, can’t take it with you — unless the publisher grants you the rights.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the Alliance for Adequate Funding of Special Education, a consortium of 11 school districts that wanted to change how the state funds special education.
A Seattle-based education advocacy organization wants to ameliorate the “shockingly poor” education results in South King County and Seattle with a 10-year improvement project it launched Thursday, the Road Map for Education Results.
