Don Smith, a long-serving board member, who spent more than 40 years editing and mentoring journalists, including stints as city editor and business editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died last week in Seattle. He was 75. His wife, Deeann Glamser, said he was receiving radiation treatment and succumbed to an infection on Sept. 7. Don's newspaper career took him from Washington to Texas, where he worked at the Dallas Morning News, and to Seattle, where he spent 20 years at the P-I. until the paper stopped printing in 2009.

https://www.invw.org/2023/09/13/a-tribute-to-don-smith-a-tireless-advocate-for-journalism-and-investigatewest/

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By / InvestigateWest Washington state officials are considering a code of ethics for paraeducators, a step toward increasing oversight of these school employees who work closely with children yet lack the statewide oversight that other educators face.  Paraeducators assist teachers in classrooms and sometimes work one-on-one with students. Yet when complaints about paraeducator behavior arise, the state's Office of Professional Practices does not have the power to investigate or discipline paraeducators.

https://www.invw.org/2023/09/22/despite-working-closely-with-kids-wa-paraeducators-face-limited-oversight/

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