We know our Tacoma family is deeply hurt and troubled by the domestic terrorism that occurred in Atlanta and Boulder, Co. The Foundation for Tacoma Students and Graduate Tacoma remain committed to our mission and condemn these acts of violence.
Tacoma is allocated to receive $63 million from the American Rescue Plan to support the community with relief from the pandemic.
Join our partners at Project Child Success and Washington Communities for Children in highlighting the need for increased investments in early learning across the state
With all students opted into the College Bound Scholarship, we are relieving an unnecessary burden for many of our school staff, students, and families. SB-5321 has the potential to support communities across the state to increase their college-going culture and college enrollment rates.
The policy cutoff date is only one week away! This means that any bills that haven’t passed out of their policy committee will not move forward this session.
Graduate Tacoma’s inaugural Charting Our Future conference is a chance to harness our collective knowledge, experience, and power. Part leadership, part peer-learning conference, we want to hear your session ideas. This event is open to all youth, parents, educators, and community members.
We call on our partners, friends, and advocates to join our collective voices during the month of February to build a Tacoma that justly serves our students.
The Fair Start of Kids Act would make early learning – including childcare, preschool, and programs for infants and toddlers – more affordable and accessible for families and more sustainable for providers, who are typically women of color.
The Foundation for Tacoma Students would like to share this opportunity to work in partnership and operationalize Juneteenth as a company paid holiday. We tenaciously believe that this acknowledgment is an important step toward our ongoing commitment to anti-racism
Gov. Inslee is calling for education related programs to be maintained – a noticeable divergence from last year’s conversation around program budget cuts. Legislators also introduced The Fair Start for Kids Act addressing the child care crisis.