MEAD, Wash. — A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet. This story also appeared in Idaho Education News and The Seattle Times They would pit one Washington against the other and see what happened. For years, Democrats in […]
The West
Much of education coverage focuses on the crowded coasts and biggest cities, but millions of Americans educate their children on the vast rolling plains or in among the towering mountain ranges of the West. These schools, replete with their own problems and full of their own unique solutions, deserve focused, thoughtful reporting as well.
