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Lousy pay, a toxic workplace and excessive workloads are driving away the people who serve vulnerable kids and their families.

Washington state lost nearly one in five foster homes between 2008 and 2015 amid complaints of discord and disarray.

Brandon Fogg, who has experience both as a foster child and foster parent, says foster care needs a celebrity champion.

When foster children spend the night in a hotel or in a foster home that agrees to keep them for only one night at a time, they typically don’t make it to school the next day.

More than a decade after the courts ordered the state to clean up its foster care program, kids are still left rootless, vulnerable.

Last year's Count Us In survey, a daylong census of homeless and unstably housed youth and young adults in King County, found that 32 percent were African-American and 22 percent identified as LGBTQ.

Kids need families to feel safe and secure.

Bertha's cutter-boring machine when it was being brought to Seattle in 2013.

Attention isn't just nice, it's necessary for normal brain development. Without the right kind, infants grow into troubled teens and adults.

The city has had seven superintendents in the last 10 years. In this first installment of our new podcast, Steve Scher talks to education activists about the churn.