Schools

Puyallup School District officials say they keep finding bats inside Edgerton Elementary School and are actively working to figure out how they keep getting there.

The Seattle Public Schools board officially ratified a new contract with the Seattle Education Association on Thursday.

Kids in kindergarten through preschool started their first day of school on Tuesday, as Seattle Public Schools avoided a teachers strike on the first day of the school year.

Contract negotiations with Seattle teachers came down to the fire Tuesday night, with Seattle Public Schools agreeing to salary increases among other concessions to the teachers union. But big questions regarding the district's budget linger.

Seattle Public Schools and the teachers union reached a deal to avert a strike after bargaining all day and night.

Seattle Public Schools has still not come to a contract agreement with unionized educators, but has not yet announced that the first day of school will be canceled due to a strike.

The deadline is quickly approaching for Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association to reach a contract agreement, otherwise thousands of teachers and staff are set to go on strike Wednesday, the first day of school.

Contract negotiations between Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association lingered into the eve of the first day of school, with parents spending most of their day planning for potential childcare.

Seattle Public Schools teachers are poised to go on strike Wednesday if a contract agreement is not reached, leaving thousands of families scrambling before the school year.

Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Ben Shuldiner provided an update Monday regarding contract negotiations with the teachers union, as a strike could begin Wednesday if a deal isn't reached.

Seattle students are supposed to be back in class on Wednesday, but the district and union representing educators are still negotiating a new contract. Now, working parents are scrambling for alternate plans.