I have worked for Green River College as a full-time, tenured faculty member in the Early Childhood Education program for nearly 25 years. I am also a Green River alumnus.
Donald Trump is marching toward the Republican presidential nomination, and Washington is one of his next stops.
The first time area aerospace machinists tried to claw back bits of Washington’s ginormous tax break to The Boeing Co., they found themselves up against national leaders of their union and the governor of the state.
Boeing’s new cost-reduction plan has deep ramifications for Washington because the bulk of the 4,500 job cuts are likely to land here.
Gov. Inslee was hanging out with his pals from the Washington Education Association last Saturday morning when the subject of charter schools came up.
For the last 20 years, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen (D) has served Washington well. Now, he is retiring and leaving the state senate as he found it – a dignified place to debate and enact public policy.
Time to catch up on a couple pieces of unfinished business around here.
Because 2016 is a presidential election year, both major political parties are in the process of choosing their candidate to be the next president of the United States.
Little Marko was on fire. The man most know as Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood was riffing on all the goodness in the supplemental transportation budget Tuesday evening and dropping kudos to Gov. Jay Inslee along the way.
Why are so many people running to become Washington’s next lieutenant governor?
Nearly 600 people braved the rain-slicked roads of South King County to fill the beautifully decorated gymnasium at Grace Community Church in Auburn and share breakfast on Feb. 12.
The removal of the word “community” from the Green River College’s name seemed an ominous sign that the school was becoming disconnected from its mission to serve local needs.
Having completed debates on the use of toilets and taxes, the Republican majority in the state Senate directed their attention Tuesday to a top item on this session’s to-do list – education.
A Republican lawmaker wants to tax political campaigns and use the money to teach civics in schools and boost enforcement of the state’s election laws.
On Feb. 9, Auburn School District voters will be asked to support a renewal of the Educational Program and Operations Replacement Levy for the district for the next four years.
Minutes before Gov. Jay Inslee gave his State of the State address Tuesday, the leader of Washington’s public school system delivered a message of his own.
I was at the Journal of San Juan Island newspaper office last week and noticed one of the top 10 stories from 2015 was the discovery of a dinosaur bone on Sucia Island.
Resolutions are for people with goals, a plan and a life.
The staff and faculty of Green River College were greatly disappointed by the op-ed from the administration that was published Dec. 11 in the Auburn Reporter.
Our public schools rely on more than 25,000 paraeducators – school employees who work under the supervision of teachers in the classroom – in all facets of education, especially in programs designed for at risk students.