Education Secretary Arne Duncan is dangling some big grants to states that permit charter schools. Washington doesn't, and it has beat back earlier efforts to allow them, led by Jim Spady.
Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers, with soloist Seth Orza (center) as Riff, in Jerome Robbins' <i>West Side Story Suite</i>, part of PNB's Broadway Festival.
A poster used in the campaign to stop Seattle Public Schools from closing Arbor Heights Elementary, which had been listed in an earlier recommendation but spared in the final proposal.
