Archive | 12. Nov, 2009

Breaking News: Supreme Court rejects Federal Way’s teacher pay-gap claims

12. Nov, 2009 • Categories: Blog, Media Clips • by Jen Olson

(This is an excerpt from a story published in The Olympian. LEV will provide analysis on the ruling in the coming days.)
A lower court had upheld school district claims that the state’s seventh-largest school district wrongly had one of the lowest levels of per-pupil funding (No. 263 out of 296 districts). The district’s web [...]

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Rules Set for $4 Billion ‘Race to Top’ Contest

12. Nov, 2009 • Categories: Blog, Media Clips • by Jen Olson

(This is an excerpt from an Education Week article on “Race to the Top” rules. Note that Washington is listed in Category 3 and would possibly receive $150-250 million.)
For a good shot at the $4 billion in grants from the federal Race to the Top Fund, states will need to make a persuasive case for [...]

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Other Voices:High Cost Of Ballot Measures

12. Nov, 2009 • Categories: Blog, Media Clips • by Jen Olson

(Other Voices is part of a series of posts by guest bloggers. Today’s post is written by Kristina Logsdon, Ballot Initiative Project Director of Win/Win Network.)
Fixing our broken ballot measure system
It’s official. Truth and equality were the winners on Election Day. Equality was preserved, not only for the LGBT community in retaining the domestic partnership [...]

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Boost expectations to improve student performance

12. Nov, 2009 • Categories: Blog, LEV News, Media Clips • by Jen Olson

LEV board member Trish Millines Dziko wrote a powerful piece for the Seattle Times on Core 24 and raising the bar on student expectations.
“Did you know our state’s low expectations for students require only two years of science and three years of math to graduate from high school? That is not enough to be adequately [...]

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