Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning, launching into our first summer weekend with a full moon and hot weather.

Here are today's top stories. It's Friday, June 21st. Another Seattle school year marred by community gun violence is coming to an end.

And district leaders are planning safety and security improvements for next year.

They're considering whether they should bring back school resource officers or close campuses during lunch.

The district is also pursuing new community

partnerships to combat youth gun violence in and around schools. School board president, Liza Rankin,

says the district cannot do this work alone. The fact that we live in a society where children

can easily access, guns is horrific and is not something that a school

district can do anything about, but we have to deal with the impacts of it. District officials say

they'll consult students and families for feedback before making final decisions on any changes.

A judge decided today to press pause on part of Washington's new Parents' Bill of Rights Law.

Civil rights groups are trying to get this law thrown out entirely. The plaintiffs say the measure undermines school-based support for LGBTQ youth.

Part of the law says schools must provide parents with records of students counseling and medical files

within 10 days of a request a King County judge has frozen that part of the law as the

court case plays out but parents can still opt their kids out of classwork related to

their political or personal beliefs. The newsroom of the Everett Herald is reeling today after its new owner announced a wave of layoffs,

then apparently censored a story reporters wrote about it.

Caleb Hutton is the local news editor for The Herald.

He says reporters and editors are furious.

When the publisher asked me kind of what the temperature of the newsroom was today, I said

it felt like about 140 degrees.

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