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Sixty Washington Districts Cut Chronic Absence Every Year Since the 2022 Peak

Correction: This version removes policy and funding figures that were outside the article's state-data evidence chain. The chronic-absence findings are unchanged.

1 in 20 Washington Students Now Has a 504 Plan

On Bainbridge Island, 17% of public school students have a Section 504 disability accommodation plan. In Federal Way, 30 miles to the southeast and serving a student body more than six times as large,...

White Students Now 47% of Washington's Schools

In the fall of 2022, for the first time in recorded history, white students made up less than half of Washington's public school enrollment. The threshold was crossed quietly: 49.9%, a fraction of a p...