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Washington is trying to get some of the Race to the Top money the other Washington is dangling to entice states to conform to its ideas for improving education.

A student at Spokane County's Mead High School is facing a felony charge after jokingly telling his teacher he was hired to kill her, police officials said.

The Seattle School Board may delay a decision on whether to allow high-school students to graduate with a D average, which would give the board more time to discuss an issue that's drawn strong opposition from across the city.

Nancy Kaplan teaches people how to get along. You'd think being social animals, we'd just pick that up.

Many schools are preparing everything from paper homework packets to higher-tech options to keep students on task during an emergency shutdown.

Lull Mengesha has recently written a revealing little book on what it's like to be black at Seattle's largest institution of higher learning.

Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.

With some 5,000 students due to move into the University of Washington residence halls over the next few days, university officials are bracing themselves for a major outbreak of the swine flu. Officials estimate 50 to 100 students already have the flu.

The first science-lab-on-wheels on the West Coast kicked off a 50-school tour Tuesday at Seattle's Northgate Elementary, where fourth-graders isolated their DNA, guided by scientists from Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center.

As school gets under way across the state, the pain of last spring's cuts to school-district budgets are being felt by parents, students, teachers and staff. In many school districts, classes are larger, new textbook orders are on hold, fees to play sports have gone up, music programs shut down and bus service cut back.