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The Seattle Education Association’s representative assembly then voted to suspend their strike pending the results of an all-union vote, which allowed students to return to classes last Thursday.

On another: an equally passionate gathering of teachers, students, and parents at Summit Sierra-one of Seattle’s first-ever public charter schools-wearing bright-blue “Keep Our Schools Open” T-shirts, toting hand-drawn “Don’t Close My School”...

The Seattle Times reports that of the estimated 3,000 members who attended the meeting, 83 percent of teachers, 87 percent of paraprofessionals and 96 percent of office professionals voted to approve the contract, according to the Seattle Education Association.

A tentative deal was reached between Seattle’s school district and teachers’ union, ending a five-day strike.

To clear the way for construction near a mall, an archaeological survey was carried out during which thousands of stone tools crafted at least 10,000 years ago have been unearthed. Foods that tested positive for what these ancient people were eating include bison, deer, bear,...

Union leaders had hoped to oust the metric – which tracks teachers’ performance using changes in student test scores from one year to the next – from the district’s teacher evaluation system.

In a press conference today the Seattle Public Schools Board said a state mediator would be in place Thursday morning to help negotiate the matter.

Eriq Zavaleta scored in the 59th minute for Toronto (11-11-4).

Many will have Jack Butland between the posts but if you’re looking for alternative defensive cover, Marc Muniesa costs just 4.5 and looks to be a fixture of Mark Hughes’s backline.

Danny Valencia had a two-run shot and five Athletics total drove in at least two runs. “The game is hard, even for the great ones”.

Danny Valencia homered and Stephen Vogt doubled twice in a seven-run fifth, and the A’s climbed out of a big hole against Hisashi Iwakuma for an 11-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

“They laughed at Bernie Sanders when he ran for mayor, not just because he was a brash outsider from Brooklyn, neither Republican nor Democrat, but because he was an avowed socialist“, said a NBC News report in 1985, the day Sanders was sworn in for his third term as...

Sanders and his aides have acknowledged that he must increase his support among African-Americans, here and nationally, if he hopes to turn his surprising momentum into a serious challenge against Clinton. Just before the Seattle disruption, the Sanders campaign announced that...

“They want to look more at other people in addition to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is the beneficiary of that right now”, said Eric Davis, political scientist. New Hampshire also has a habit of rewarding underdog candidates fighting well-financed favorites,...

The 27-year-old left-hander tied his mentor Sandy Koufax’s franchise record of six straight 200-strikeout seasons while tossing eight scoreless innings, and the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Washington Nationals 3-0 Wednesday night for their 17th shutout win.