Puget Sound Coalition
Puget Sound Coalition for College and Career Readiness is comprised of superintendents, community and technical college presidents, and educational leaders, working to create more equitable and seamless transitions between high school and college. The Puget Sound Coalition is committed to addressing racial inequity and improving success rates for historically underserved students. The Puget Sound Coalition’s measures of progress include:
- Increase high school graduate rates
- Increase college-going and persistence rates
- Decrease number of students having to take non-credit-bearing college courses
- Increase college graduation and job placement rates with particular attention to family-wage jobs
The Puget Sound Coalition is guided by the Regional Compact.
Members include:
K–12 Districts
Alan Spicciati
Auburn School District
Dani Pfeiffer
Federal Way School District
Ivan Duran
Highline Public Schools
Israel Vela
Kent School District
Damien Pattenaude
Renton School District
John Welch
Puget Sound Educational Service District
Brent Jones
Seattle Public Schools
Concie Pedroza
Tukwila School District
Career and Technical Colleges
David May
Bellevue College
Suzanne Johnson
Green River College
John Mosby
Highline College
Rachel Solemsaas
North Seattle College
Yoshiko Harden
Renton Technical College
Bradley Lane
Seattle Central College
Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap
Seattle Colleges
Jack Kahn
Shoreline Community College
Sayumi Irey
South Seattle College
Contributing Partners
LaEisha Howard
Community Center for Education Results
Becky Wallace
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Patricia Loera
University of Washington
Since its inception in 2008, the Puget Sound Coalition has achieved several significant accomplishments. In 2017, the Puget Sound Coalition began an intensive design effort to develop a model for more comprehensive support systems to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion for students of color and low income students in the region. The planning process resulted in the development of the King County Promise, a proposed college scholarship and supports program for King County guided by the Puget Sound Coalition for College and Career Readiness.
The Puget Sound Coalition is staffed by the Puget Sound College and Career Network, which is housed at the Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD).