Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Join us for a free, special presentation of the movie Paramount Duty at the Northwest Film Forum on Tuesday, April 27th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Please RSVP online, space is limited. This is the first in a series of public events focusing on the current state of public education in Washington State and the [...]
With your support and advocacy, we achieved important victories for kids and schools this legislative session. In the face of the worst recession since the 1930s, lawmakers adjourned last night after balancing the state budget and raising $800 million in new revenue to support education and other critical services. Here’s a brief summary of what [...]
Back in 1998, a small group of levy chairs, school directors, and parents came together and hatched a plan to direct the state’s surplus (we had one back then) into public schools, so that the promises of education reform could be made real for all children. Its success at the ballot box was stunning – 72 [...]
The Race to the Top (R2T) participation agreement and appeal letter sent to districts is now public. The appeal comes from Washington’s team, lead by Gov. Chris Gregoire, Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn and State Board of Education Chair Jeff Vincent. Together, they are asking all 295 school districts to sign participation agreements by May [...]
In case you haven’t picked up on it yet, me and mass quantities of data are BFF. So, when reports come out — especially reports with numbers — I read them, and sometimes I blog about them. The National Center for Education Statistics today released an initial report on Fall 2008 enrollmentat colleges and universities. [...]
Lost in the flurry over Race to the Top on Monday was the announcement of additional School Improvement Grant (SIG) awards. And hey, what do you know, Washington actually got something — $17 million to help turn around our lowest-performing schools (see our application here). Not quite as large as Race to the Top ($3.5 billion compared to $4 [...]
Unless you completely ignore education news, you know Delaware and Tennessee are the winners of the first round of Race to the Top (R2T) grants. The national blogs (see here and here) are aflutter dissecting the winners and losers, trying to figure out what really separates the two. I’m not one to duplicate, however, it is worth [...]
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