Washington state Sen. Adrian Cortes speaks to hundreds of teachers, school employees and students on Feb. 17, 2025 at the Washington state Capitol. Cortes will speak at a solidarity rally for striking Evergreen Public Schools classified employees on Sept. 1. (Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard)
Families and leaders of Evergreen Public Schools in southwest Washington hope students will return to school on Tuesday after a week-long delay due to a classified workers strike.
But officials of the 22,000-student district in Vancouver have yet to come to an agreement with over a thousand union members demanding that the district address critical understaffing and adequately compensate paraeducators…