In high-poverty WA school districts, high schoolers bore extra burden
For some high school students, summer couldn’t come fast enough. “I feel like it’s been the first day of school for so long,” said Christian Fuentes, 18, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in Yakima on June 8. Because of the pandemic, high school seniors across Washington experienced a tumultuous end to their secondary education. But while all kinds of students struggled to adjust to virtual learning, student life has been particularly difficult for students in high-poverty districts. Continue reading at Crosscut. (David Diaz)
As many in Washington move on from pandemic despair, some still grieving feel left behind
It’s been more than a year since COVID-19 began decimating Ali A. Abdulla’s family. His mother and grandmother died 11 days apart in March 2020. Within months, the disease also took his father, other grandmother and a brother. A lot has changed since then. Vaccines have quelled much of the fear that gripped the country, and as spring and then summer dawned, ushered in a joyous period of reopenings that for many has made life seem almost normal again. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Ann Hopping Nelson)
Sweltering temperatures and minimal preparation left state prisoners struggling to cope
On the morning of Wednesday, June 30, Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) staff covered part of a window at the entrance of the Twin Rivers Unit (TRU) at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Snohomish County in an attempt to lower the heat inside on a day when outside temperatures peaked at 82 degrees. But people incarcerated in the TRU say they spent the worst of the past week’s heat wave — including a high of 111 degrees in Monroe on Monday, June 28 — in sweltering cells with no air-conditioning and few chances to cool down, while prison staff had access to air-conditioned offices when temperatures rose into the triple digits. Continue reading at South Seattle Emerald. (Philip Cohen)
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