Homeless Washington students: Tacoma schools seek housing resources as district with most homeless students

By Lauren Gallup
Gov. Jay Inlsee signs HB 1682 at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma in 2016. The governor is surrounded by adults and students.
The Tacoma School District has the largest number of students experiencing homelessness in Washington. Month after month, more students and their families are counted as homeless in Tacoma, the third largest city in the state. “We started the fall at 1,626, and as of the end of April, we're at 2,382,” said Taj Jensen, director of Title, Learning Assistance Programs Read More

YVC faculty union demands transparency

By Johanna Bejarano
YVC faculty union members
Yakima Valley College faculty union members voted no confidence in college president Linda Kaminski. Union leaders say the administration has become unaccountable and is not addressing their complaints. But, college representatives say meetings with faculty have taken place, and they are working to answer their questions. Read More

On Nez Perce Reservation, Lapwai Addresses Mental Health By Understanding Kids’ Culture

By NWPB News
Lapwai School district students dressed in traditional clothing of the Nez Perce Tribe
The 500-student Lapwai School District takes an all-bases-covered approach to student well-being, including leveraging partnerships with the Nez Perce tribe and local community to address youth mental health. The small North Idaho district is among only nine rural districts in the state to provide four key behavioral health supports for all of its students, according to an Read More

Idaho Budget For Teacher Salaries Stalls After Pushback Over Social Justice And Race Theory Education

By NWPB News
Rep. Matthew Bundy, a school teacher and Mountain Home Republican, debates for the teacher salary bill Tuesday, April 13, 2021. CREDIT: Idaho Education News/screenshot
The state’s K-12 teacher salaries budget fell Tuesday on a 34-34 tie vote after more than an hour of volatile debate — ranging from anecdotes about good teachers and “bad actors” to accusations that educators are being forced to include critical race theory in their coursework. Stories from teacher-lawmakers on both sides of the issue focused on the content’s presence — or Read More

Rural Idaho District Under Pressure To Stay Open, But School Board Refuses To Mandate Masks

By NPR News
Elementary school teacher Sariah Pearson contracted COVID-19, suffering a fever and other symptoms for close to six weeks. CREDIT: Kirk Siegler/NPR
Case numbers have shot up lately in rural America, which skews older and tends to have huge inequality gaps in health care. But there's still resistance in places such as Bruneau, Idaho, which has a population of 500. Here, there's also a pervasive sense in the community that kids need to be physically in classrooms for their education and well-being yet stiff opposition Read More
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