Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wealthy universities like the University of Washington are raising more money than ever. So why does tuition keep going up? Congress wants to know.

School security guards would be barred from using handcuffs, pepper spray or bodily force to subdue misbehaving students, under a bill that state lawmakers are considering.

Trend toward attending school online continues to escalate. Number in Washington has jumped 75 percent.

In the wake of three teenage shooting deaths, residents of the Central District grapple with gangs and violence.

An international anti-bullying program being piloted in Seattle elementary schools this year aims to teach children to empathize with each other.

The Bush administration is cutting off funding for abstinence-only sex education because this state now requires schools to provide additional information about preventing pregnancy and STDs.

BREMERTON -- A plan to educate a handful of developmentally disabled students at the state-run center where they live, rather than in public school classrooms, has drawn a lawsuit from an advocacy group.

Just leave it to the experts. The haircut, the brake job and the 1040 were long ago ceded to the pros by most people. And now families are turning to experts to help their teenagers score an acceptance letter from the right college at a time when institutions of higher education are getting choosier about whom they let in.

Learning how to drive and getting that first driver's license used to be a rite of passage for teens. But now, for many, it's become a luxury.

Within two years, Seattle Public Schools will change the way it allocates money to schools, in an attempt to ensure each building has at least a "core" staff that includes

It seems like a no-brainer: feeding local kids locally grown food. But it's surprisingly hard to do, especially with tight budgets like Seattle Public Schools' $1 per child for each meal.

There are more college students in Seattle than ever before this year -- almost 52,000 at the city's three universities alone.

Some local college professors have had it with laptops in their classrooms, and they're asking students to buy a pen and paper.

In the digital age, it's simpler toys that may make children smarter
Want your kids to get smarter? Research shows blocks may do the trick.

P-I Special Report: Some serious crimes reported in the Seattle's public schools last school year -- including cases of assaults and strong-arm robberies -- weren't reported to police, the P-I has found.