The first defense filing has landed in Director Nancy Hamilton's lawsuit against the Port Angeles School District, and the complaint itself has been refiled to fix a paperwork error, according to Clallam County Superior Court records reviewed by The Olympic Herald.
Attorney Lori M. Bemis of McGavick Graves,
The Port Angeles School District Board of Directors declined on Thursday, July 23, to approve the minutes of its June 18 meeting, the session at which it voted 4-1 to censure Director Nancy Hamilton.
The vote keeps the official written record of that night out of public view for
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has suspended the Washington education certificate of a tutor employed by the Skokomish Tribe who worked two school years inside Shelton High School, citing a pattern of multiple incidents of inappropriate interactions with students in Mason County and, later, in Nebraska.
William Heelan
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors heard new firsthand testimony Tuesday night, as a district graduate who now works as a substitute for the district and a high school assistant cheer coach told the board she personally experienced the kind of touching described in evidence at the Larson
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors is scheduled to meet Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Forks High School Library/Media Center, its first regular session since the district paid the Larson judgment and since a closed-door special meeting that ended with
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has permanently revoked the Washington education certificates of three educators in orders signed on the same day, two of them arising from felony convictions in other states.
The Final Orders of Mandatory Permanent Revocation were signed July 14, 2026, by Deputy Chief Legal
The Port Angeles School District Board of Directors will hold its regular meeting tonight at 5 p.m. in Room 208 of the Lincoln Center, 905 W. Ninth St.
It is the board's first regular meeting since June 18, when directors voted 4-1 to censure Director Nancy
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has suspended the education certificate of a former Tumwater fourth grade teacher who registered a .185 blood-alcohol reading after school administrators took him to a medical facility on a Monday morning in April 2025.
Sean Colgan, who taught at Peter G. Schmidt
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors met behind closed doors for roughly 80 minutes Wednesday afternoon, then adjourned without taking any action or offering further explanation of what was discussed.
The special meeting was open to the public for only about two minutes in total. After the Pledge
The Sequim School Board will hold a public hearing tonight on the district's 2026-2027 budget, with budget-related public comments accepted.
A budget workshop begins at 4:30 p.m., followed by the regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the District Office Board Room at
Port Angeles School District Director Nancy Hamilton has taken her fight with the board majority to court.
In a complaint filed Tuesday afternoon in Clallam County Superior Court, Hamilton asks a judge to declare Resolution 2526-18, the censure the board adopted 4-1 on June 18, "arbitrary, capricious,
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors will hold a special meeting today at 12:00 PM in the Forks High School Library/Media Center, with nearly the entire session set to take place behind closed doors.
According to the published agenda, the board will call the meeting to
The Quillayute Valley School District has paid $765,834.77 to former assistant cross-country coach Kari Larson, formally closing the books on the federal lawsuit that exposed years of institutional failure inside the Forks school system.
A Satisfaction of Judgment filed July 2 in U.S. District Court in
The Washington State Auditor’s Office has cited the North Kitsap School District for a material weakness in its internal controls after finding the district failed to properly document how it spent federal money intended for students at risk of falling behind academically.
The finding appears in the district’s
The Port Angeles School District should have bargained with its office professionals’ union before cutting secretarial hours as part of its 2025 budget reductions, an independent arbitrator has ruled, sustaining the union’s grievance and ordering the district to negotiate before any more bargaining unit work is moved out of
Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has permanently revoked the teaching certificate of Jordan Henderson, a former Evergreen Elementary School teacher convicted this year of sexually abusing four of his young students, and has permanently barred him from ever applying to teach in the state’s public schools
The North River School District is facing a $22,000 reduction in state funding after a Washington State Auditor’s report found the district overreported its special education enrollment during the 2024-2025 school year.
An assessment audit, published June 18, 2026, by the Office of the Washington State Auditor,
The Mount Baker School District is navigating a challenging financial landscape as it works to restore its cash reserves while operating under state oversight, according to an independent audit released on June 22, 2026, by the Washington State Auditor’s Office.
The audit, which reviewed the district’s financial statements
A former science teacher at Leota Middle School has had his Washington state teaching certificate permanently revoked following a conviction for attempted child molestation, according to a final order issued by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.
📄 John Butz (370KB ∙ PDF file)
John Butz Jr., who had held a Washington
A former Tacoma Public Schools first-grade teacher has had her teaching certificate suspended after possessing and consuming marijuana on an elementary school campus, according to a recent disciplinary order issued by the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
State documents reveal that Stacy Kerrigan, whose Washington teaching
The financial fallout from a landmark federal discrimination lawsuit against the Quillayute Valley School District continues to mount.
Following a federal jury verdict in April that found QVSD liable for cultivating a hostile work environment, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin H. Settle has ordered the district to pay exactly
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