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4 days ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
Former student journalists who filed a lawsuit against Western Washington University for violating public records law have used some of the settlement earnings to establish an investigative journalism fund at Western. Last year, Western was penalized for withholding sexual assault records, the result of a lawsuit filed by alumni Erasmus Baxter, Asia Fields and Julia Furukawa. The three alumni were awarded $111,780.
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5 days ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
One Whatcom County elementary school is seeing growth in students’ reading skills after making some significant changes to its teaching approach. Irene Reither Elementary in the Meridian School District saw a 129% median growth in student reading proficiency last year, the highest in several years, said Principal Tyler Dockins.
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5 days ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
Operational student employees at Western Washington University have paused their strike after five days to enter into “intensive negotiations” with the university, according to the bargaining committee. Last Wednesday, the student staff walked off their jobs to demand union recognition from Western and a contract.
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1 week ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
High school and college seniors around Whatcom and Skagit counties will accept their diplomas this June.
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1 week ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
More than a thousand student employees at Western Washington University went on strike early Wednesday, May 28. Operational student employees, who include program support staff, recreation assistants, resident advisors and lifeguards, are seeking union recognition from Western and a contract.
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2 weeks ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
For 20 years, the legacy of Indigenous activist and author Vine Deloria Jr. has brought scholars and community members from around the country to Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Reservation. It’s something Deloria dreamed up during one of his last public appearances at the college in summer 2005, before he died that November: He wanted to see Northwest Indian College host a yearly Indigenous Studies symposium. Now, two decades later, the event has grown.
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2 weeks ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
Amy Chan Wolsdorf gets up at 2 a.m. every morning, eats breakfast, preps her meals for the day and goes to the gym. Then, she checks the stock market. Wolsdorf, 85, is a self-taught stock market whiz who has amassed her wealth with smart investments, including in Microsoft, she said. Standing at 4 feet, 8 inches, the slight, gray-haired woman from Hong Kong doesn’t match the stereotypical image of a stock trader.
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2 weeks ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
As Whatcom Community College faces down a projected $3.8 million deficit, some classes, and potentially some staff positions, are on the chopping block. The shortfall stems from several factors, including “state budget reductions, partially funded legislative mandates, rising costs and enrollment,” said Public Information Officer Marni Saling Mayer. Enrollment has been increasing in recent years, now at 3,078 full-time enrollments, but it remains 700 below pre-pandemic levels.
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3 weeks ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
BURLINGTON — It’s lunchtime at the Salish Sea Deaf School, and all the students, from pre-K to eighth grade, are sitting together at an oval table. They’re giggling and smiling as they eat their lunches, communicating with each other using mostly American Sign Language. For most of these students, hanging out and interacting with their peers by themselves is not an experience they could get in mainstream public schools, where they would communicate with others through an interpreter.
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3 weeks ago | 
cascadiadaily.com | Charlotte Alden
LYNDEN — Devin Luna, one of the main organizers of a transgender student support rally at the Lynden School District on Thursday, May 15, came out to a school counselor when she was a student at Lynden High School. But the 2022 graduate told the school board, she quickly “took it back,” because she said Lynden is “hostile” to transgender people like her.
