“We’re not done fighting this yet, and I hope you’re not done because Mr. Mitchell is an incredible person, an incredible teacher, and we need to keep him here,” Harper said as he addressed the ...

Tumwater City Council member and aspiring mayor Leatta Dahlhoff told The Olympian she plans to request a joint meeting with the Tumwater School District board of directors to talk about budget ...

Controversies over transgender athletes in girls' sports led to protests, lawsuits and defiance of Trump's executive order in the 2024-25 school year.

The school board president voted to support banning transgender girls from competing on girls sports teams in February.

A former official at Washington state’s schools agency alleges the state superintendent fired her after she voted as a local school board member in support of barring trans girls from competing ...

The Tumwater School District went on to pass its own rule to ban trans athletes from girls' sports, before a Department of Education investigation was launched against the district for the incident.

The Tumwater School District’s stadium was the perfect home for local student athletes participating in the second annual Day of Champions, celebrating fun, friendship and athletic achievement ...

In March, the Trump administration’s Department of Education launched an investigation into Tumwater School District over allowing a transgender athlete from an opposing team to compete in a girls’ ...

At Tumwater Middle School, 48% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 59% scored at or above that level for reading. Compared with the district, the school did better in ...