PSESD News

COVID-19 has disrupted traditional educational data, assessment practices, and particularly, the application of traditional metrics such as statewide, high stakes summative assessments that often distract from the systemic inequities driven by disparate student outcomes.

Parent leadership opportunities are essential strategies to support children and families, as they lift up the voices of parents as leaders and the first and most important teachers for their children.

Over the past two years, the Special Services Department at PSESD has formed a learning community with district leaders focused on understanding and addressing disproportionality in special education.

The events that took place earlier this week in Washington, DC and in Olympia, WA are intolerable...