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Fifth-grader Kelsey Bisconer, 11, fills up her glass with fresh chocolate milk during lunchtime Tuesday morning at Laurin Middle School. Clark County Green Schools received a $40,000 grant from the Washington Department of Ecology to install the dispensers at schools in Clark County.

Milk dispensers seen as glass-half-full approach to waste at schools

Fifth-grader Kelsey Bisconer, 11, fills up her glass with fresh chocolate milk during lunchtime Tuesday morning at Laurin Middle School. Clark County Green Schools received a $40,000 grant from the Washington Department of Ecology to install the dispensers at schools in Clark County.

December 20, 2018, 6:00am Clark County News

As the lunch line opens at Laurin Middle School, a group of clamoring fifth-graders crowded around a device affectionately nicknamed Bessie. Read story

Tola Atewologun helps recent Chief Sealth graduate Gonzalo Cruz, 18, secure entrance loan counseling for college. Ellen M.

Puget Sound school districts trying to recruit — and keep — more teachers of color

Tola Atewologun helps recent Chief Sealth graduate Gonzalo Cruz, 18, secure entrance loan counseling for college. Ellen M.

December 19, 2018, 1:47pm Clark County News

When you’re tasked with bringing more people of color to work in schools, the regular rules of recruiting don’t apply. Read story

Scam preys on Chinese students at schools in Washington

December 19, 2018, 9:15am Northwest

Chinese students in Washington state be warned: scammers pretending to be members of Chinese law enforcement have bilked at least five people of $100,000 apiece, according to the FBI’s Seattle Division. Read story

Adam Aguilera helps fourth-grader Kaler Mathews with a question about a math exercise during class at Pioneer Elementary School on Nov. 5 in Vancouver. Aguilera, who is Latino, said his own identity informs his teaching and helps him relate to his students of color on a meaningful level.

Clark County faces steep climb to diversify teaching force

Adam Aguilera helps fourth-grader Kaler Mathews with a question about a math exercise during class at Pioneer Elementary School on Nov. 5 in Vancouver. Aguilera, who is Latino, said his own identity informs his teaching and helps him relate to his students of color on a meaningful level.

December 17, 2018, 6:00am Clark County News

Monica Stonier will never forget the day she learned why it matters that schools have diverse teachers. Read story

(Jennifer Luxton/The Seattle Times)

Teachers in Washington don’t reflect increasingly diverse student body

(Jennifer Luxton/The Seattle Times)

December 14, 2018, 6:00am Clark County News

As students in Washington classrooms have become more diverse, the teachers who stand before them have remained almost always white. Read story

The color of education: Six years’ worth of school data anchors report

December 14, 2018, 5:55am Clark County News

Using six school years’ worth of data from the state education office, Dahlia Bazzaz from The Seattle Times and Katie Gillespie from The Columbian analyzed the widening racial mismatch between Washington’s public-school students and their teachers. Read story

Student speaker Silvia Marinova speaks to the audience during a graduation ceremony for Clark College’s first class of bachelor’s of applied science in applied management degree recipients at Clark College on Tuesday night. Marinova has dreamed of earning a bachelor’s degree since arriving in the United States 20 years ago.

Clark College celebrates first graduates in bachelor’s of applied science

Student speaker Silvia Marinova speaks to the audience during a graduation ceremony for Clark College’s first class of bachelor’s of applied science in applied management degree recipients at Clark College on Tuesday night. Marinova has dreamed of earning a bachelor’s degree since arriving in the United States 20 years ago.

December 13, 2018, 8:20pm Clark County News

Silvia Marinova’s dream since arriving in the United States has been to earn a bachelor’s degree. Read story

Hannah Roberts, left, is led through the steps of a dance performance by 14-year-old Victoria Self during a rehearsal at Heritage High School.

Heritage High dance team unites special ed, general students

Hannah Roberts, left, is led through the steps of a dance performance by 14-year-old Victoria Self during a rehearsal at Heritage High School.

December 13, 2018, 6:00am Clark County News

Ravyn Boger’s face split into a wide grin as a member of the Heritage High School dance team pushed her wheelchair in a wide oval across the studio floor. Read story