Cindy Brune first walked through the halls of Mary Purcell Elementary School in 1963.
鈥淎s a first grader (the school) seemed big,鈥 she recalled. 鈥淚 could hardly wait to get to school so I could learn how to read.鈥
This month, after 40 years of鈥
Five years ago, educators in the Burlington-Edison and Mount Vernon school districts, at Skagit Valley College and at Western Washington University set out to solve a problem: how to get not only more teachers, 鈥