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Education

Childcare centers struggle to stay afloat as kids stay home

With one-quarter of the state's licensed child care centers closed, providers that remain open struggle with new, stringent safety protocols and dwindling enrollment, raising concerns about the state of child care once the stay-at-home order is lifted.
Ann Dornfeld
Race & Identity

Ep. 2: Are We Going to Be OK? Seattle scholar considers a return to Singapore to escape Covid-19

Author Ruchika Tulshyan weighs the risks of staying in the US as the pandemic spreads while also navigating lockdown with her three-year-old.
Kristin Leong
Education

School investigating additional allegations against Seattle teacher following KUOW report

Following KUOW's investigations into teachers who kept their jobs after documented abusive behavior, students at one Seattle school attempted to report even more complaints.
Ann Dornfeld

Angela King
Health

7 Of Our Most Popular Global Health And Development Stories In 2019

Secrets of Inuit parenting, a Mongolian heavy metal band and a controversial medical center in Uganda were among the topics that drew the most readers.
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Technology

How is Amazon changing our lives?

Over the last year or so, the SoundQs team has gotten a lot of questions about one Seattle-based company. Amazon. Happily, KUOW's podcast Primed is finding answers to questions about how Amazon is changing our lives. Here's the first episode of their newest season, about Alexa and kids.
Deborah Wang

Carolyn Adolph

Joshua McNichols

Alec Cowan
Health

Washington parents can't opt out of MMR vaccine for philosophical reasons

More kids will need the measles vaccine in order to legally attend public or private schools in Washington this fall. That comes after a recent change to state law.
Ann Dornfeld
Health

The shame we carried

Yvonne described it as a horror movie playing on a loop in her mind.
Isolde Raftery
Health

How To Help A Kid Survive Early Puberty

Around 15% of girls begin menstruation by age 7. The challenges of puberty can rock anybody, but being the first of your friends to go through it can be especially stressful. Good parenting helps.
Juli Fraga
Health

Unvaccinated students and staff barred from two Seattle-area schools after new measles cases

After a staff member at Issaquah High School and a student at North Creek High School in Bothell were diagnosed with measles, Public Health Seattle-King County and Snohomish Health District told the schools to keep out any unimmunized students and staff for at least three weeks.
Ann Dornfeld
A young Irish mom's painful decision

I was 16 and going to school; I lived in Dublin and was infatuated with this older fellow who was a jack-the-lad kind of fella.
Sian Cullen

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