Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
This blog post is part of our edCored series on education funding and written by M. Colleen Clancy, J.D., a policy advocate and the founder of PROMOTE-EDU, a consultancy dedicated to advancing opportunities for community college students. For comments, contact clancy@promote-edu.com. If you want to be notified when new content is published in this month-long [...]
Vicky McKinney is the program director for the parent training information and training program at Partnerships for Action and Voices for Empowerment. She started her journey in advocacy when she adopted a foster child whom she later learned had been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Realizing that there was little support or information for parents [...]
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Well, it’s one of those Pacific Northwest days that has the makers of anti-depression medication doing a small-to-medium happy dance – with local baristas lacing up their shoes to join in. One of those days where you remind yourself that there are actually sunsets behind the mountains out there beyond the grey clouds and drizzle. [...]
As you may have noticed, LEV has become a little obsessed with Halloween over the last couple of weeks. And given the really gory details of the Governor’s state budget proposal yesterday, it seems our greatest fears for Washington’s children are coming to life before our eyes. We’ve shown you a budget fright fest for [...]
Dr. Mark Anderson, associate superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, wrote this blog post for our edCored series on education funding. If you want to be notified when new content is published in this month-long series, please subscribe to the LEV Blog’s RSS feed or once-a-day email digest. Local Effort Assistance (LEA), also called levy equalization, [...]
This post is republished with permission from the School House Wonk, which is the creation of Beth Sigall. A special education attorney, Sigall has represented students with special needs and their families. She is involved in education policy at the state and local level here in Washington state and advocates for foster children in the [...]
Today Governor Gregoire released her “draft” supplemental budget and proposed that the state make major cuts to schools, colleges and universities for the fifth year in a row. The Governor proposes cutting $378 million in state support for schools and $174 million from colleges and universities. Cutting education jobs is the wrong solution for our [...]
David Iseminger wrote this blog post for our edCored series on education funding. Iseminger is president of the Lake Stevens School Board, sits on the WSSDA Board of Directors, and was on the Funding Formula Technical Workgroup (FFTWG). He is also a member of the Federal Relations Network (FRN), which advocates for education issues to [...]
In the final entry of a three-part series focused on school funding, we talk with Susan Enfield, the Interim Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. During our discussion, Enfield discusses maintaining professional growth and support for teachers and principals in the face of a budget crisis and her attempts to keep cuts out of the the classroom. [...]
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