The state with the most legally battled law - and which took a 10 year fight to even establish - was finally vindicated in a state supreme court decision in 2018, but schools can only access funds from a lottery-funded entity, compromising sustainability and...

Washington state is showing a growing focus on mastery-based learning, supported by the State Board of Education's provision of resources and guidance for districts to adopt mastery-based crediting. Additionally, high school students can earn college credits...

Governor Ferguson enters his first term with a tough road ahead.  He can continue to ignore his state’s Board of Education who have called for more charter schools, who by the way are discriminated against with regard to their being the only public schools to...

Washington has no private school choice programs.

Report cards can be located on Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) website, which serves as the main hub for education. School report cards, easily found under the "Data & Report" tab, offer straightforward navigation and furnish...

One of many data points to assess whether a state has the right policies in place to ensure teacher quality is the "use of student achievement data in teacher preparation accountability." How empty or full the fuel tank above is will give you the answer for your state.

"The Washington Constitution contains Blaine Amendment language in two provisions, and both have been interpreted by the Washington Supreme Court as being more restrictive than their federal Establishment Clause counterpart." (Institute for Justice) After...