4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (29+ words) The Seattle Medium What Is One Thing Seattle Public Schools Should Prioritize To Make Students Successful?...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (776+ words) By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium Following the death of his mother, Charles Tatum Jr. began thinking about the women who had helped hold Seattle’s Black community together, and how many of them didn’t receive recognition for their contributions while…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium After years of community advocacy and decades of concerns about aging facilities and underinvestment, Rainier Beach High School celebrated the completion of its new $275 million campus last week, marking a dramatic turnaround for a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (670+ words) By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association continued contract negotiations Tuesday in an effort to avert a teacher strike that could delay Wednesday’s first day of school for tens of thousands of students....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1399+ words) (CNN) — They’re drones that are launched remotely, can break through windows, help clear classrooms and have an embedded speakerphone to communicate with teachers and police. All that before disorienting and incapacitating a potential school shooter in about a minute. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (702+ words) By Hazel Trice Edney (Trice Edney Wire) – As America continues to commemorate Black-owned business month in August, Black Professionals Month, coming up in October, is a global movement that showcases Black excellence while advancing leadership, collaboration, visibility, and wealth creation…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (695+ words) (Trice Edney Wire) – When Head Start was launched in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, it rested on a profoundly democratic proposition: Children should not be punished for their parents’ poverty, and a child born into a low-income…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (827+ words) By Kiara Doyal, The Seattle Medium As students return to classrooms across the country, education advocates say Black and Brown students continue to face stark differences in their school experiences, including heightened surveillance, threats of school closures and budget cuts…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (328+ words) “It makes clear that the federal government cannot simply disregard borrowers’ rights and its own legal obligations without consequence,” said Eileen Connor, the president and director of The Project on Predatory Student Lending, an advocacy organization that brought the lawsuit…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (971+ words) By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium New research suggests the expansion of single-family rental housing could provide families who cannot afford to purchase homes in certain neighborhoods greater access to higher-performing public schools, with economically disadvantaged students showing some of…...