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2 days ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab.
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1 week ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
May 27-An influx of state aid and some one-time measures will allow Seattle Public Schools to balance next school year's budget. While SPS will erase the projected $100 million-to-$104 million deficit in its proposed $1.35 billion budget for the next school year, the underlying factors behind the district's yearslong structural deficit remain. That means the district could be in the red by as much as $87 million for 2026-27 even before next school year starts.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. An influx of state aid and some one-time measures will allow Seattle Public Schools to balance next school year’s budget.
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2 weeks ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
May 22-Nearly five years after Seattle Public Schools suspended a program with the Police Department to put armed police officers in schools, law enforcement could return to Garfield High School this fall. The district is hammering out a memorandum of understanding with the Seattle Police Department to assign a "school engagement officer" to the high school in time for the start of the new school year in September, according to José Curiel Morelos, SPS executive director of safety and security.
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2 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab.
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2 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle children of deaf parents will be able to enroll automatically at a school that offers a program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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3 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones, who plans to leave his job Sept. 3, is on medical leave, according to the district.
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3 weeks ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
May 14-The clock is ticking for hundreds of Seattle Public Schools students who are on waitlists, eager to hear where they'll go to school in September. Parents are pushing the district to let wait-listed students attend the schools of their choice, many of them seeking to attend option schools with specialized programming. Meanwhile, the district and School Board are weighing those requests against the desire to maintain enough enrollment at neighborhood schools.
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3 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. The clock is ticking for hundreds of Seattle Public Schools students who are on waitlists, eager to hear where they’ll go to school in September.
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3 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab.
