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OLYMPIA – The summer months are coming to an end. Children are heading back to school, but they are experiencing summer learning loss and now require remedial education. Every year, teachers say the first month of school after the summer break is spent discovering what the students have retained and then reviewing what they’ve forgotten. This learning loss disproportionately affects indigent students according to a 2016 American Education Research Association study. Substitute Senate Bill 5147 proposes a four-year, year-round...
OLYMPIA – A defiant Gov. Jay Inslee defended his phased plan to open businesses by so-called "regions" during a press conference last week. "Everybody can have a rational argument against what we're doing, but you can't argue with the results, which is that we are ahead of 45 other states," he said. According to Inslee, that translates to an extra 8,000 saved lives in the state with more than 700,000 individuals already vaccinated. Inslee's comments come as he finds himself u...
