Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
I think giving to charity should be meaningful, impactful and fun. All the better if the organization makes it easy! Most importantly I want to feel that my contribution is really making a difference for the people/animals/rainforests (or whatever cause I am passionate about in that moment!). I am LEV’s new Development Director and it [...]
Somebody call the police. Davis Guggenheim was robbed. This week the Oscar nominations were announced and “Waiting for Superman” was noticeably absent from the documentary film category. Perhaps it was just too hot to handle, but education was THE social issue of 2010 and rages on here in the new year with the President calling [...]
Legislative committees in the House and Senate continued to hold public hearings and work sessions this week. In addition, lawmakers introduced a ton of legislation. We are now tracking more than 125 bills dealing with education issues. The week began with hearings relating to our state’s math and science high school graduation requirements. Legislators in [...]
Editor’s note: The blog post below was written by our intern, Elliot Helmbrecht. The views expressed in the blog post and any references to legislation may or may not reflect the positions of the League of Education Voters. View our Session 2011 webpage for LEV’s legislative agenda and list of bills we are supporting. Have [...]
How would you balance the state budget? KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds asked that question to listeners today at noon. They suggested listeners try using our state budget calculator to balance the budget. Our deputy director, Frank Ordway, went on the show to talk about how we came up with the list of budget [...]
Editor’s note: The blog post below was written by our intern, Elliot Helmbrecht. The views expressed in the blog post and any references to legislation may or may not reflect the positions of the League of Education Voters. View our Session 2011 webpage for LEV’s legislative agenda and list of bills we are supporting. As [...]
Members of Seattle Organizers for Community Engagement in Education (Seattle Organizers) received a briefing today about the new tentative agreement between Seattle Public Schools and its principals. Seattle School Board member Steve Sundquist and Howard Pripas, Seattle Public Schools’ Director of Labor and Employee Relations, briefly went over the highlights and major changes of the [...]
President Obama tied our nation’s future to our ability to “out-educate and out-innovate” the rest of the world in his State of the Union address last night. Obama dedicated roughly a third of his remarks to education, citing a statistic we often use–that half of all new jobs in the next decade will require training [...]
As President Obama pushes for a new era of innovation – “our generation’s Sputnik moment” – we are left with the challenge of making sure that all of children are ready for the opportunities that lie ahead. Washington is one of only nine states where the achievement gap is growing. In order to fulfill the [...]
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