Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Sarah Ramsdell is a mother of two and lives in the Vancouver, Washington area. Everyone knows children don’t come with instruction manuals. I imagine, at some point, every parent has wished their child had. Regardless of the lack of an instruction manual, every parent is conscious of the fact that the first years of a [...]
I have two children enrolled in Alexander Twilight College Prep Academy, an Aspire charter school in Sacramento, CA. My daughter started at this school the first year that it opened and she was part of the first kindergarten class. We decided to enroll her there because our neighborhood school had very low scores and we [...]
Traci lives in Puyallup, WA, is a mother to three, and works at the Bethel School District. She has her Masters of Teaching from University of Puget Sound. Budget cuts again. The teacher in me shudders. The mom in me is grateful to have been blessed with the children I have. Let me elaborate. In [...]
The following is prepared testimony given on Friday in the House Education Committee in favor of HB 2428, which would allow for transformation zones and public charter schools in Washington state. Written testimony sometimes varies from the spoken testimony, as panelists are dissuaded from reading from a script. Members of the committee, my name is [...]
The following is prepared testimony given on Friday in the House Education Committee in favor of HB 2428, which would allow for transformation zones and public charter schools in Washington state. Written testimony sometimes varies from the spoken testimony, as panelists are dissuaded from reading from a script. Hello, my name is Christopher Eide and [...]
Marina is a mother of two from Elma, WA. She works for the Aberdeen School District. She is a graduate of Western Washington University. My name is Marina Richardson, and my husband Rick and I have two children ages four (soon to be five) and two. My husband works for the state as a corrections [...]
The Washington Supreme Court ruled the Legislature can’t continue to cut education. In fact, they must add funding and come up with a plan for a fully-funded education system. The court provided the catalyst the Legislature needed to act. Yet legislators are in a tough position. The economy continues to struggle. They need to hear [...]
This post is republished with permission and originally appeared on Beth Sigall’s School House Wonk blog. The Foundation for Excellence in Education and Digital Learning Now! issued digital report cards this week. These report cards assess the effectiveness of each state’s online learning opportunities for K-12 students. States earned grades of “achieved,” “partial” or “not [...]
Yesterday, Gov. Chris Gregoire proposed $1.7 billion in cuts to state government, while suggesting a temporary sales tax increase to prevent some of the more severe reductions, which include shortening the school year. We wrote that cutting education is the wrong solution for our ailing economy. The Legislature will tackle the budget deficit in a [...]
This post is republished with permission and originally appeared on Beth Sigall’s School House Wonk blog. It is common for assistance programs to use chronological age cut-offs to determine eligibility. In the foster care system, this typically means that children must exit foster care at age 18 even if they are in no way prepared [...]
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