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
Susan Enfield
Highline Public Schools
Israel Vela
Kent School District
Damien Pattenaude
Renton School District * Co-Chair
John Welch
Puget Sound Educational Service District
Brent Jones
Seattle Public Schools
Flip Herndon
Tukwila School District
Career and Technical Colleges
Gary Locke
Bellevue College
Suzanne Johnson
Green River College
John Mosby
Highline College
Warren Brown
North Seattle College
Kevin McCarthy
Renton Technical College
Yoshiko Harden
Seattle Central College
Shouan Pan
Seattle Colleges
Steve Hanson
Shoreline Community College
Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap
South Seattle College * Co-Chair
Contributing Partners
Bernadette Merikle
Community Center for Education Results
Michaela Miller
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).