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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.

Seattle Spent a Decade Building. Six Years Erased It.

Between 2010 and 2020, Seattle Public Schools did something almost no large urban district in the country managed: it grew. Not modestly. The district added 8,993 students over a decade, swelling from...

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...