The Port Angeles School District released seven arbitration decisions to The Olympic Herald, in response to a public-records request. One ruling ordered reinstatement and back pay for a Stevens Middle School secretary fired after more than nine years without prior discipline. The district had failed to prove misconduct. Two

The Quillayute Valley School Board again offered no substantive public response October 13 as speakers called for it to retract its statement about the Kari Larson lawsuit, complete a misconduct investigation and hold administrators accountable. Five of the six public commenters discussed misconduct, accountability or changes to school practices. The

The Quillayute Valley School Board meets tonight at 5:30 pm, with no item on its published agenda calling for a vote on residents’ requests to retract the district’s statement about the Kari Larson lawsuit. As The Olympic Herald previously reported, the district’s August 25 statement emphasized findings

Why Not You Academy, a Des Moines public charter school that closed in June, lacks sufficient cash reserves and future funding to repay about $3.8 million in debt due by June 2027, according to a new state audit. The Washington State Auditor’s Office found that the school did

The Port Angeles School Board approved a water remediation plan Thursday after testing found elevated lead levels at nine outlets across three schools. Follow-up testing left two fixtures at Port Angeles High School above the state’s action level, with one permanently shut off and the other restricted from

Taholah School District could not locate 16 of 21 assets selected for testing by state auditors and could not show that purchases totaling $238,755 were included in its inventory, according to a Washington State Auditor’s Office report. The accountability audit found inadequate controls for tracking and safeguarding district

Washington education officials have permanently revoked the certificates of former White Pass School District Superintendent Greggery Teel and former Archbishop Murphy High School teacher John Doty following their convictions in separate cases involving child sexual abuse material. The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, or OSPI, revoked Teel’s certificate

The Port Angeles School District released the final installment of records requested by The Olympic Herald last week, providing emails documenting school board member Nancy Hamilton’s exchanges with district leaders and fellow directors. To make that correspondence easier to access, I built a tool for viewing and searching these

The Port Angeles School District is asking a judge to dismiss Director Nancy Hamilton’s lawsuit challenging a censure resolution that makes certain information requests from elected directors subject to approval by the full board, while denying that it silenced her. In an answer filed September 23 in Clallam County

Two speakers pressed the Quillayute Valley School Board on student safety Tuesday. Sharon Millett questioned how the district treats people who raise concerns, while Shannon Gaydeski renewed a demand to retract its statement about the Kari Larson lawsuit. The board offered no substantive public response to their criticism during the

Multiple speakers challenged the Quillayute Valley School Board’s account of the Larson lawsuit Tuesday, pointing to a verdict against the district and a cancelled investigative interview as they demanded corrections and changes in how harassment complaints are handled. The board offered no substantive public answer. After the comment period,

The Washington State Auditor's Office has concluded that Olympic Educational Service District No. 114 is operating outside its statutory authority by providing paid network and technology support to fire districts, ports and a library district.  The Bremerton-based agency has pushed back, saying the auditor is reading a

Four and a half months after a federal jury found the Quillayute Valley School District liable for a hostile work environment, the district finally addressed it in public.  What the community received Tuesday was not an apology or an action plan. It was a prepared statement, roughly eight minutes, defending

Brian Weekes has resigned from the Forks Planning Commission, Mayor Tim Fletcher confirmed to The Olympic Herald, leaving the city's land use panel on the same day a petition seeking his removal was posted online. “Mr. Weekes resigned Monday morning from our planning commission,” Fletcher wrote in an

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 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 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