Seattle Public Schools

Education

Homelessness is soaring among Seattle students. School support workers are on the front lines

Homelessness among Seattle Public Schools students has been on the rise over the last two years, affecting roughly 2,200 students. KUOW takes an inside look at how a district staffer goes above and beyond to help these students – and their families – in one southeast Seattle elementary school.

Education

Whistle blown: Fraud allegations over elite basketball program at Seattle public school with $22,000 tuition

Education

With school cutbacks in the air, Seattle parents embrace neighborhood schools

As several Seattle schools faced the threat of closure this past year, KUOW decided to look at the role schools play in a neighborhood, and the sometimes hidden ways they knit together a community.