(If you are a regular reader, you know that right this very minute my browser is open to training camp updates of my Green Bay Packers. There is a deity somewhere – the lock out is over. Thank you. Oh, thank you.) Hope your summer is rolling along in all the right ways. I [...]
Send a student to see the Storm!
July 29, 2011 By
For-Profit Colleges: a Personal Story
July 28, 2011 By
Editors note: LEV intern Elliot Helmbrecht, with the help of Nikolas Raisis, Samantha Maloof, Eric Hopson and Lauren Brown bring to you a series of blog posts on the growth of the for-profit university industry. This is the second post of 3. If you missed the first, check it out HERE. More often than not, [...]
“We have to pay for things”
July 28, 2011 By
Kristin Bailey-Fogarty is a Seattle teacher and a LEV board member. My father gladly paid taxes. “We have to pay for things,” he’d say. As a child I understood that the roads I zoomed over on my Schwinn, the parks I played in, the lifeguards who protected me, the librarians who loaded me up (heavenly) [...]
Schools 2 Prisons: Breaking Schools’ Rules
July 27, 2011 By
Editors note: Introducing Schools to Prisons, a collaborative research project between Our American Generation and the League of Education Voters. This project highlights the concerning link between our nation’s prisons and public education systems; a link that turns struggling students into juvenile delinquents. We’re bringing to you three podcasts, released weekly, to shed light on [...]
LEV goes to court to overturn initiative
July 25, 2011 By
Updated 10:36am Read the press release. Read the complaint. Today, the League of Education Voters – along with the Washington Education Association, lawmakers, parents and taxpayers – filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court challenging the constitutionality of Initiative 1053. The initiative imposes a supermajority vote in the state Legislature to raise revenues or [...]
Take action! Save Pell!
July 25, 2011 By
Today, supporters across the country are banding together for Save Pell Day — an online day of action to engage via blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other online tools to raise our voices in opposition to Pell funding cuts. This critical program that enables nearly 10 million students to attend college has a huge target on [...]
What Can I Do?: Teaching students how to advocate for themselves
July 25, 2011 By
Rashad Norris is the outreach director at Highline Community College. By teaching students how to advocate for themselves, Rashad is closing the education opportunity gap one student at a time. Are we really going to wait until he teaches each and every kid of color how to advocate for themselves to close the opportunity gap? [...]
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A Shot at the Top: New Early Learning Race to the Top Competition
July 21, 2011 By
The race is on again! And this time Washington State is serious contender. A couple of months back, Congress announced new funding for Race to the Top. In total, Congress appropriated $700 million, of which a whopping $500 million is set aside specifically for early learning – the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge [...]
Schools 2 Prisons: From Pupil to Prisoner
July 20, 2011 By
Editors note: Introducing Schools to Prisons, a collaborative research project between Our American Generation and the League of Education Voters. This project highlights the concerning link between our nation’s prisons and public education systems; a link that turns struggling students into juvenile delinquents. We’re bringing to you three podcasts, released weekly, to shed light on [...]
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