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In most places across the country, families face a labyrinth of difficulties trying to navigate special education services — especially if they legally challenge their child’s educational placement at school.

By June, it will become school districts responsibility to prove they provided the correct services to a disabled child — not the other way around.

In most places across the country, families face a labyrinth of difficulties trying to navigate special education services — especially if they legally challenge their child’s educational placement at school.

The largest for-profit thrift-store chain in North America, Savers, which operates as Value Village in Washington, filed an initial private offering this year of more than $500 million, and also aims

The Bellevue-based for-profit thrift store chain won a lawsuit over its marketing approach, but nonprofit competitors arent happy.

House Bill 1628, coined the Affordable Housing Act, is causing a stir among Washington residents, real estate agents and legislators.

The attorney general’s office argued that the for-profit thrift store deceived customers by misrepresenting its charitable support.

For more than five months, Matthew, a nonverbal teenager with autism, lived in a hospital room at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.

The state of Washington is putting tens of millions of dollars into shoring up a fractured children’s mental health safety net. But it may come too late for a 14-year-old nonverbal autistic teen who spent five months stuck in the hospital.

Sen. Manka Dhingra has called for a joint session to address the practice, which splits up families and costs taxpayers millions.