Education
Challengers stack up in 2024 OSPI race to head Washington schools
Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal now has two challengers for the 2024 race to run Washington’s education department.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal now has two challengers for the 2024 race to run Washington’s education department.
Only seven of 21 school bonds statewide got supermajority votes, but 91% of school operations levies, which require only a simple majority, passed.
Bonds raise taxes for building and maintenance. While the proposal faces hurdles, there is a precedent — school levies needed 60% approval until 2007.
The life-saving opioid reversal medication is currently available only at high schools in districts with 2,000 or more students.
New residencies at the 11-year-old Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine hope to address health care disparities between urban and rural communities.