Washington State Standard

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson made a splashy announcement earlier this month that he would back legislation to ban student cellphone use from the first bell of the day to the last in public schools.&nb...

In mid-May, as Washington school districts were deep into developing their budgets for the next academic year, around 130 received notices that their rates for the Washington Schools Risk Management Pool were going up. And not just by a little bit: by an average of 45%.

School districts contribute funds to the risk pool instead of paying for traditional liability insur...

The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was

SEATTLE — Opponents of conservative-backed initiatives to undo changes to the rights of parents and public school students and restrict the participation of transgender girls in sports officially launched their campaign to defeat the ballot measures this week.

The No Hate in WA State campaign argues the two Let’s Go Washington initiatives would invade children’s privac...

Facebook’s parent company must pay the largest campaign finance fine in Washington state history, the state Supreme Court affirmed in a split decision Thursday.

Meta urged the justices to declare a state la...