WASHINGTON NEWS

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Bellevue Reporter

• Washington doesn’t know true vaccination data
  

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Columbian

• A Seattle youth homeless shelter faces its final days
  

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Crosscut

• Technology vs. privacy: Washington looks to regulate facial recognition tools in 2020
  

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Daily Record

• Year in Review No. 4: New elementary school plans switch gears multiple times
  

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Longview Daily News

• Castle Rock grad: Scholarships, loans, debt are new normal for higher ed
  

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Our Kids, Our Future

• Several Everett Robotics Teams Win Awards and Move to Semi-Finals!
  
• Two Hearts, Two Mics: A Conversation Project Featuring Mollee Raether And Jeline Blakely
  
• Arlington Public Schools Collects Construction Impact Fees in 2019
  
• Yakima SD Swears in Recently Elected School Board Members
• Cape Horn-Skye Elementary Students Learn the Joy of Giving
• Showing Love in the Kennewick School District

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Seattle Times

• Mailer encourages Washington state teachers to stop paying their union dues and ‘save up to $1,200’
• Helping all kids on the road to adulthood | Editorial
  

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Skagit Valley Herald

• Anacortes School District asks state to make a change
  

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Spokane Public Radio

• Concerts To Highlight Real Stories Behind Politics Of DACA
  

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Spokesman-Review

• 'Just get on and go!' No bus fare needed anymore on this Northwest transit system
  

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Tacoma News Tribune

• A candid conversation with music mentoring legend Peggy Burrough
  

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WSSDA NEWS

• January is School Board Recognition Month
• Get the Winter issue of WSSDA Direct
  
• Watch the Keynotes from the WSSDA Annual Conference
• Photos from the WSSDA Annual Conference
  

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EVENTS

• Feb. 9-10: Legislative Conference & Day on the Hill
• Feb. 27: Edu Talks: Tipping Points—Leveraging Change in Education
  
• May 20: Equity Conference—From the Boardroom to the Classroom

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OSPI / SBE

• Watch the OSPI-WSAC Webinar on HB1599 with SBE
  • Webinar Slides
    
• Graduation Requirements Rules Adopted
• Federal Meal Assistance Funds Available

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NATIONAL NEWS

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Best of the Blogs etc.

• CA: Students in foster care: a quick guide
• NY: Same classroom, different salaries: Special education pre-K teachers earn dramatically less than their general education co-teachers
  
• Ransomware extends holiday break at Michigan K-12 district
  

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Dallas Morning News

• How long are Texas schools superintendents sticking around? Longer than you’d think.
  

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Denver Post

• Committee won’t recommend changes to Colorado’s school finance formula
  

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Education Week

•  'We Just Work Our Way Around It.' CTO Challenges in a Rural District
• Facial Recognition Tech Discriminates. Ten Questions to Ask About K-12 Use
  

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Los Angeles Times

• What should schools do when a second-grader makes a threat?
  

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New York Times

• Cheating Scandals, Charters and Falling Test Scores: 5 Takeaways From the Year in Education
  

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Oregonian

• Opinion: America can learn from Oregon’s approach to supporting students
  

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Washington Post

• A Maryland case asks: Should some private schools be banned from accessing public voucher dollars?
  

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