Teach For America announced today that it is expanding to Seattle-Tacoma, with plans to bring at least 35 top college graduates to teach in some of the area’s highest-need schools for the 2011-12 school year. Teach For America recruits, trains, and supports outstanding recent graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in [...]
Navigating K-12 funding
January 18, 2011 By
One of the most hotly-debated topics in education centers on funding. How much do school districts need to provide a great – heck, even decent – education to all kids? As our new issue paper on funding points out, “there is no compelling evidence that any particular level of funding guarantees a particular outcome. Moreover, [...]
Anti-bullying bill gets House sponsors
January 17, 2011 By
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. With [...]
Meet the intern: Elliot Helmbrecht
January 17, 2011 By
Hi, my name is Elliot Helmbrecht and I am the new intern for the League of Education Voters. I will be blogging for LEV during the 2011 Legislative Session in Olympia, but before I begin I wanted to introduce myself to all of you fine readers first. I grew up in Hutchinson, Minnesota, a little [...]
Washington’s leaky education pipeline
January 17, 2011 By
There was so much going on last week that we wanted to circle back around to one of our big releases – the publication of our 2011 Report Card. Our research and policy team gets a lot of requests for information and data. But one of the most-requested graphics is our Washington’s leaky education pipeline [...]
Students tackle state’s budget deficit
January 17, 2011 By
We know that thousands have checked out our online budget calculator, but we were especially interested to see a blog post detailing the struggles of Advanced Placement Government & Politics students when they tried to tackle the deficit. That the common refrain we hear from folks who have spent time trying to fix the deficit [...]
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition “tired of waiting”
January 17, 2011 By
The Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC) has published an op-ed in the Seattle Times, asking “How much longer will we have to wait for the kinds of schools our children deserve?” The coalition is a committed grassroots leadership group of multi-cultural SE Seattle organizations and individuals that is collaborating to improve southeast schools and education [...]
Korsmo’s education news roundup for Jan. 14th
January 14, 2011 By
It feels like a long time getting here, a week where the national news focused equally on weather and the tragic shootings in Arizona. Not sure what to make of that, but there it is. Closer to Home: The Washington legislature got down to official business this week holding hearings and taking comments on the [...]
LEV releases its 2011 legislative agenda
January 14, 2011 By
We’ve posted our 2011 legislative agenda, which reflects both our long-term vision as well as the immediate budget crisis. There is more we can do to use this crisis to clarify our priorities and restructure our systems to better support them. But we also have to be vigilant that we don’t go backward. There are [...]
Higher education data updated for 2011
January 14, 2011 By
Do you know how many students attend a public university or community and technical college in Washington? How about the economic activity resulting from academic research? You can find out much more about our state’s higher education system from the Higher Education Coordinating Board. They just updated their Key Facts about Higher Education in Washington [...]
