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WASHINGTON NEWS

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Vancouver Columbian

• Washougal School District, community library host K-5 robotics programs
  

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Crosscut

• Woodinville's Ruby Bridges Elementary is one of several dozen Washington schools working to better integrate special education students with their peers.
  

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Longview Daily News

• Washington state, Cowlitz County highlight special education, mental health needs in schools
  

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Olympian

• Olympia middle school students restore logged property with 900 native plants
  

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Peninsula Daily News

• Sequim school board approves business plan for CTE facility
  

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Seattle Times

• Special education spending, oversight top priorities for WA lawmakers
• Issaquah School District discloses bond funds spent on wrong projects
  

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Skagit Valley Herald

• Skagit Valley College hosts MLK Jr. Day of Service
• Legendary Mount Vernon High School wrestler to be honored

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Spokesman-Review

• Washington Legislature looks to set up state-run apprenticeship programs for students
  

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Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

• Former Walla Walla High School coach Jim Thacker to be honored
  

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Wenatchee World

• Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Fest celebrates diversity in Wenatchee Valley
  

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Yakima Herald-Republic

• Hundreds honor Martin Luther King Jr. with marches and other events in Yakima and Toppenish

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More Washington Media

• KOMO-TV
• School teachers beginning to focus on students mental health needs
• The Chronicle Newspaper
• Toledo School District Answers Questions About Levy Proposal to Fund Stadium Upgrades
• GeekWire
• Seattle Public Schools bans ChatGPT; district ‘requires original thought and work from students’
• Mercer Island Reporter
• Wellman and Senn talk special education funding and more at meeting
• Auburn Reporter
• Community summit will address student safety in Auburn
  

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EVENTS

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• February 26-27
• Legislative Conference and Day on the Hill

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WSSDA NEWS

• January is School Board Recognition Month
  
• Read the Winter 2022 Issue of WSSDA Direct
  
• A Unifying Voice: School Board Directors Plan Advocacy for Washington’s 2023 Legislative Session

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Educational Partners

• OSPI
• High School Student Develops Learning Materials to Destigmatize, Prevent Sex Trafficking
  
• Ninth Grade Success Team in Vancouver Works to Close Opportunity Gaps for Students
  
• AWSP
• Special Education and 504 Tips & Resources | January 6, 2023
• SBE
• Mastery-based Learning: Learn more about the work group and the collaborative

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Superintendent Openings

• Bremerton School District
• Burlington-Edison School District
• Tumwater School District
• Onalaska
  
• North Beach School District
• Quileute Tribal School
  
• Northshore School District
• Eatonville School District
• Waitsburg School District
  

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Best of the Blogs etc.

• Chalkbeat
• 50 years after the Keyes case and busing in Denver, once-segregated Stedman Elementary fights to stay integrated
  
• The74
• SCOTUS Considers When Students With Disabilities Can Sue for Damages
• Opinion: NYC Could Find Out if ‘Gifted & Talented’ Is Good for All Kids. But Will It?
  
• Edutopia
• A Research-Backed Tool Kit of What Works—and Doesn’t Work—in Education
  
• WEA
• Pamella Johnson, WEA's 2022 Education Support Professional of the Year, is an academic and behavioral intervention specialist at Rochester High School and a passionate advocate for paraeducators.
  

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NATIONAL NEWS

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Dallas Morning News

• ‘We should be the first to do right,’ Dallas fifth grader encourages in MLK Jr. speech
• State closer to taking over Houston schools after Texas Supreme Court ruling

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Education Week

• A School District Now Has a Deep Bench of Principals of Color. See How It Got There
• Students of Color Disproportionately Suffer From Police Assaults at School, Says Report
  

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New York Times

• If Affirmative Action Ends, College Admissions May Be Changed Forever
• Panic Buttons, Classroom Locks: How Schools Have Boosted Security
  

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Oregonian

• Portland teacher, students help develop Advanced Placement Black studies course that will spread nationwide

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Miami County Republic

• Gov. Laura Kelly announces plan to fully fund Kansas special education for the first time in years

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