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.
The student scribbled a bomb threat on the wall of the bathroom in black ink because he apparently didn’t want to go to school. “Big Boom Nov 9th Beamer Dies.”
At 10 a.m. Saturday, the massive cafeteria inside Thomas Jefferson High School was filled with more than 100 middle and elementary school students.
Congress passed a law that will eventually affect Federal Way residents who have children that eat a school-provided lunch.
Sam Schumer started debating at the end of his freshman year at Thomas Jefferson High School, and he hasn’t looked back. Now a senior, Schumer is the preeminent debater in Federal Way schools.
Washington residents were boiling mad enough over taxes on bottled water, gum and candy to repeal them on Election Day.
Lakota Middle School seventh-grader Grant Hall has seven trophies, each a testament to his athleticism.
Federal Way residents who commute to Seattle on Interstate 5 saw a 12-minute decrease in their morning commute time between 2007 and 2009, according to a traffic study released Nov. 19 by the state Department of Transportation.
Last week at Thomas Jefferson High School, a student approached King County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric White to give him some alarming news: There was a fellow student with a gun.
You could have driven from Federal Way to San Francisco in the time it took some to commute home on Monday night, and all due to a little bit of snow.
Some afternoon Federal Way school closures, minor accidents reported on I-5
A South King Fire and Rescue commissioner wants to fund an independent review of the process by which Chief Allen Church’s new contract was negotiated, saying he is unsure if it was allowable under the policies of the board.
All of these pieces were bought and placed in Federal Way schools by a state program that buys public art.
At the end of the class, seventh-grader Terrin Respa got a few precious moments alone with his snare drum.
An earthquake, a wind storm and a widespread power outage. You would think that’s enough weather-related calamity for one week, but apparently not. Snow may befall the Puget Sound area this weekend, but it’s predicted to be just a tiny bit.
The death of 12-year-old Lakota Middle School student Jessica Griffith has been ruled as acute methadone intoxication, and her mother was arraigned Wednesday in Pierce County on charges of controlled substances homicide.
You could say Sacajawea Middle School has won the lottery. That is, if winning lottery is done not by picking lucky numbers, but by improving state educational testing scores.
Over 1,600 and three schools without power Tuesday morning
South King Fire and Rescue will consider layoffs, early retirement incentives and shrinking its footprint as solutions to cut spending and preserve tax revenue.
