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)

By Emily Fitzgerald, Washington State Standard
August 29, 2025

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. 

Union leaders say members will not…

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