Bailey said he believed that a misconduct finding against Officer John Marion would remain in place, but then acknowledged he wasn’t sure a training referral amounted to formal finding of misconduct.

Nearly two decades after it began tracking student discipline, Seattle Public Schools continues to struggle with a chronic problem: African American students are still far more likely than their white ...

In early 2014, former Seattle police chief Harry Bailey sparked the first political crisis of Mayor Ed Murray’s term when he quietly reversed misconduct findings in at least six cases. The decision ...

I was glad to see that some folks from Oakland, Calif., are coming to Seattle to talk about their school district’s success in cutting suspensions and reducing the out-of-proportion impact its ...

SEATTLE — There’s a new push at Seattle Public Schools to break what one board member calls the “schools to prison pipeline.” Michelle Sarju, the District 5 director for Seattle Public Schools, is ...

The U.S. Department of Education confirms it is investigating the rate at which black students are disciplined in the Seattle Public Schools. School district data from 2012 shows that the rate of ...