Press Releases

This fall, Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) held elections for six of the nine seats on the PSESD board. Today, PSESD is excited to announce the results of the 2025 Board of Directors election and to introduce its new and re-elected board members, all of whom will be sworn into office at the board meeting on January 21, 2026.

Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) seeks a diverse group of community members to consider becoming members of the agency’s Board of Directors. Six out of nine Board of Directors seats are up for election this year. Board members set the agency vision and monitor progress toward its End: Success for Each Child and Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by Leading with Racial Equity.

PSESD is excited to announce that Stephen Pickard is the 2025 Regional Teacher of the Year! 

Stephen is the Band Director and Music Teacher at Governor John R. Rogers High School and Dessie Evans Elementary School in Puyallup, as well as the Director of Bands for Puyallup School District.

Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) has released its annual Report to the Community spotlighting the agency’s work in the 2024 school year.
 

PSESD, in partnership with a diverse coalition of school districts, higher education institutions, and community organizations, has been awarded a transformative $1.75 million grant from College Spark Washington to focus on increasing educator diversity and promote racial equity in Washington's educational landscape. 

The Puget Sound Workers’ Compensation Trust and Unemployment Pool (PSWCT/UP) has released its 2023–2024 Annual Report online.

According to a recent study from Washington STEM, nearly 90 percent of high school students say they want to pursue a post-high school education, yet only 50 percent went on to enroll in a post-secondary program after graduation in 2022. A partnership in South King County is working to close that gap, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has charged itself with helping to make post-secondary education attainable for all students in Washington. The foundation’s newly announced Horizons Regional Grant is another step toward making sure that all students who want to attend college can do so and achieve the futures they want.