Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
The story is way too familiar. A school district in low income area is besieged by mediocre graduation rates and finds little to no support to do otherwise. The Renton school district could have easily fit into that category. Their graduation rate was low at 74 percent and over half of the students qualified for [...]
If you were a tree, would you be one of those really annoying trees that dropped nuts that attracted squirrels who dug up the bulbs in my yard? Oh. Goodness. Where was I? Show Me the Money: With a looming $2 billion shortfall, state legislators are gearing up for a post-Thanksgiving special session sure to [...]
Due to a continuous budget shortfall, many King County teachers are unable to fund classroom projects. Hearing that need, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Donorschoose.org, Starbucks, the Community Center for Education Results and the Road Map Project team are partnering up to help public schools. On October 5th, Starbucks across King County will be [...]
Digital learning is poised to make a huge impact on our education system. As we learned at our recent event, Ed 2.0: The Rise of Digital Learning, more than 4 million students are already participating in some kind of online learning program, students blending their own learning through supplemental enrollment will continue to grow by [...]
A recently-released report by the Foundation for Child Development details in remarkable detail the evolution of the PreK-3rd movement in Seattle and Washington. The report looks at the history, accomplishments, results and challenges for this work going forward. It is a very interesting story covering more than 10 years of work. The League of Education [...]
Seattle Times’ columnist Jerry Large gives a big shout out to the Schools 2 Prisons project (a collaboration between LEV and Our American Generation) in the article below. We are continuing this conversation on Tuesday, Oct. 18th at the Kent Senior Center with our “Turning Stories into Solutions” event. This is your chance to discuss [...]
Teach for America alumnus and Teachers United founder, Chris Eide, discusses ways in which policies like LIFO (Last In, First Out) affects students, the importance of teachers advocating for their students and how we can improve student performance. The mission of Teachers United is to improve outcomes for students by ensuring that a greater proportion [...]
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President Obama has invited students of Aviation High School to attend his re-election fundraiser at the Paramount this weekend. The President wants to highlight the success of Aviation High School, one of the top performing schools in Washington State. Based in Des Moines, Aviation High School is a national model for STEM (science, technology, engineering [...]
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