What is the Highline School District Levy? Is it a Renewal? Is it an Increase?  The answer: both! The Highline School District’s 2027-30 operations levy on the Nov 4th ballot is both a renewal and an increase. It is a renewal of the previous levy that is expiring,

by Melissa Petrini, Managing Editor for The Highline Journal [This is a follow-up story to this story published last week] Full Disclosure: I am a recently resigned Highline School Board Director, and have studied this over the past several years to understand for myself what was within the Board&

[NOTE FROM EDITOR: Letters to the Editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Highline Journal.  If you wish to submit a story, photo, article, or letter, please email us at info@thehighlinejournal.com. We look forward to hearing from you.] Dear Highline Community and Families, The current race

While the evening began with a glowing school presentation and an award to the Communications Director, it rubbed against public commenters who criticized the lack of transparency on a variety of issues, such as depriving student athletes of opportunities, exorbitant administration salaries in light of the levy, and failing to

The following Letters to the Editor were submitted by verified Highline residents. [NOTE FROM EDITOR: Letters to the Editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Highline Journal.  If you wish to submit a story, photo, article, or letter, please email us at info@thehighlinejournal.com.  We look forward

💡*With many districts looking to increase their revenues through levies, Highline also has a Levy that we will report on later this week, as to why the increase and where is it spent. This story from Seattle District relates to an upcoming story. ~THJ Staff Writer Reposted by Gee Scott

by Melissa Petrini, The Highline Journal Managing Editor A parent at Evergreen High School in the Highline School District, reported to local media about an objectionable book that their 9th-grade student was assigned to read. Upon further inspection, the parent discovered obscene and literary pornographic details depicting inappropriate, sexually

Repost: Original article on The Center Square by Carleen Johnson- Oct. 10, 2025 (The Center Square) – The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has explained why student test score data suddenly vanished from its website. “The data were taken down from the website because they were multiple years out