Archive | 23. Oct, 2008

What’s your Trick or Vote costume?

The League of Education Voters has partnered with The Washington Bus to host Trick or Vote. It’s the largest non-partisan get-out-the-vote canvass…in costume on Halloween.
Next Friday, October 31, hundreds of volunteers, parents and children, will meet on Capitol Hill to do a quick training and get ready to Trick or Vote in youth-heavy neighborhoods [...]

PESB Task Force recap

The Professional Educator Standards Board Task Force on Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Well-Qualified Math and Science Teachers met Wednesday morning to continue its work in figuring out how to address Washington’s math and science teacher shortage.
Featured presenters included representatives from Teach For America, The New Teacher Project, school districts and the Center for Teaching [...]

Seattle P-I: No on I-985

Posted by Michael
The Seattle P-I Editorial Board opposes Initiative 985.  Here’s an excerpt:
In this economic era, we can understand how people might be so eager to cut their tax bills that they would even want to trim school levies. But would people want to cut money for education and still pay the same taxes?
That prospect [...]