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Teach yourself!

Libraries

-public

-univ

-zine lib.

Get taught for free!

Free workshops are everywhere. Some happen regularly, but keep an eye out for the more irregular ones in newsletters & calendars.

-Free school seattlefreeschool.org

-Vera: screenprinting, ?

-Home Alive(?): self-defense

-RRFM: varies

-Bikery: bikes

-SDIY workshops: varies- get in touch if you want to put one on

-Libraries: varies.

-El Centro: ESL, citizenship, &c

Trade money for classes.

If you’re looking for a degree, there are lots of places to get one. Or just take classes because learning is fun and because you can use your new knowledge to teach free workshops about what you paid to learn!

Seattle has 4 community colleges: Seattle Central Community College is handily located in the middle of Capitol Hill, and the Vocational Institute is downtown.  It’s about $900 a quarter for residents. http://www.sccd.ctc.edu/ Is it easy to get resident status? (different for UW than for community college)

The University of Washington is Seattle’s public university. It’s one of the country’s largest research universities, which is great if you want to read in the library and terrible if you’re in animal in one of the labs for the other kind of research.  Incidentally, the nursing program is one of the best in the country. washington.edu (NARN is usually in charge of protests re:this—mention them or not?)

Cornish College of the Arts is a rad drama school located almost-downtown with a rad library, and they put on free or cheap plays every quarter. cornish.edu

Seattle University is private, Catholic, and in the middle of Capitol Hill. Speaking of education, their master’s in teaching program is famous. seattleu.edu

Seattle Pacific University is Christian and on the north side of Queen Anne. spu.edu what else?

Look, we don’t know anyone who’s gone to the Art Institute of Seattle and then finished and been happy about spending their money there.  Mostly this is about the music program. artinstitutes.edu/seattle

K-12

Seattle’s public schools are good, but teachers aren’t compensated as well as other places. Teachers in & around Seattle go on strike yearly-ish. 

For high schools, check out Nova, a small alternative school where classes include “Joan of Arc” and “Prisons.”

-Running start in all of WA

-AP program at Garfield

There are 12 private schools- half are secular.