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Studies show charging child support extends family separations and can spur years of debt for parents in poverty. WA is pushing to change the practice.

Hundreds of families owe the state a total of $1.1 million in outstanding detention fees, a practice made legal in WA 45 years ago.

Some want the young teen who killed a man with a car to be tried as an adult. Here's why I think they're wrong.

Echo Glen School is still one of the worst performing schools in the state. We’re not doing enough to change that.

Poor outcomes and disproportionate impacts on kids of color have propelled a once-fringe idea into the mainstream in Washington state.

The Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia ended anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S. long after our state had done the same. But the history is complicated.

A lawsuit claims three teenagers were handcuffed while in isolation, violating the state’s own policies and raising profound moral questions.

With the Monschke decision, the state Supreme Court expanded the definition of youth in murder cases. No other court has done so.