Washington schools won t require masks outdoors, but state reviewing new CDC rules on indoor mask-wearing columbian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from columbian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: July 9, 2021
Superintendent Gustavo Balderas
The Edmonds School District is among those asking the Washington State Superior Court in Douglas County for permission to join Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson in defending $500 million per year in education funding that would be raised from a capital gains tax approved this year by the Washington State Legislature.
A group that includes the district earlier this week filed a motion to intervene as defendants in the cases of Clayton v. Washington and Quinn v. Washington. Both lawsuits are trying to eliminate $500 million per year in education funding raised from a capital gains tax.
Washington schools have logged 182 COVID outbreaks this school year, says new report
But most of them are quite small, which is a really positive sign By Hannah Furfaro, The Seattle Times
Published: May 1, 2021, 9:02pm
Share:
Washington has logged more than 182 coronavirus outbreaks in school buildings this school year, with a slim majority of school-linked infections in children and teenagers age 18 and younger, according to a new Department of Health report released Friday afternoon.
The findings generally fit with previous government reports about COVID-19 in Washington schools: a narrow majority of those who tested positive were children or young adults. And a majority of outbreaks involved a small number of cases, usually two to three, and sprung up in schools that were using in-person or hybrid learning models.
If you wanted to understand Andre Ramsey, you wouldn t look at a test score. A test score couldn t tell you about the hardships he faced after both his parents went to prison when he was a toddler. It couldn t tell you how, as a third grader, he dreamed of going to Harvard as soon as he saw a picture of the campus. It couldn t tell you about the late nights studying, the volunteer work, the almost unfathomable number of clubs he s joined and leadership positions he s held. So when Ramsey, now a senior at Spokane s Rogers High School, applied to Harvard last year, he didn t include any SAT or ACT score. After all, Harvard suspended the requirement to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Politics, race were key factors in when Washington schools reopened for in-person learning during pandemic By Hannah Furfaro , Manuel Villa and Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times
Published: April 19, 2021, 10:30am
Share:
Washington school districts that primarily serve white children, and districts in counties where a majority voted for Donald Trump last year, reopened to more students sooner than more liberal leaning or racially diverse communities.
That’s one of the findings of a Seattle Times analysis, which shows that for all grade levels elementary, middle and high schools politics and a district’s racial makeup were significant indicators of how many students came back to classrooms in the months before Gov. Jay Inslee issued an order to reopen school buildings. The Times’ analysis also found that counties with the highest COVID-19 death rates had a higher average proportion of students in classrooms than the rest of the state, suggesting that health