Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Gov. Gregoire today unveiled her “Next Steps for Education Reform,” a list of policy and actions she intends to turn into legislation for the 2012 session. At first blush, there are encouraging pieces, as well as some warranting further scrutiny. As with any policy proposal, the devil is in the details, and we await the [...]
This blog post is part of 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. In these tough economic times (cue depressing music), Washington has had to cut billions out of [...]
This blog post was written 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. As Janet Suppes described last week, school districts, like most people, try to save for a [...]
State results for the new math end-of-course (EOC) assessments were released yesterday by OSPI. Now, instead of all 10th grade students taking a comprehensive (i.e. across course) math assessment, middle and high schools students will take an EOC assessment at the end of Algebra I/Integrated I and Geometry/Integrated II regardless of what grade they are [...]
State board boosts math requirement FITCHBURG — Getting admitted to a four-year public university in Massachusetts just got harder. The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education voted unanimously yesterday to require high school students seeking admission to a state university to take four years of math in high school, in an effort to boost college completion [...]
Gov. Gregoire delivered her State of the State speech today to a joint session of the Legislature. In terms of education, she didn’t say much of anything new, considering her announcement last week. She reiterated her commitment to increasing the number of Washington students who earn a college degree, and desire to reorganize education agencies [...]
Read the 2011 Report Card. Today marks the release of the fourth Citizens’ Report Card on Washington State Education. Since we first published the Report Card in 2006, Washington has felt the waves of education reform efforts hitting its shores. We passed some landmark legislation in 2009 and 2010, formally stepped in to the early [...]
The Quality Education Council is holding its final meeting for 2010 today and tomorrow in Olympia. Find all <a href=”http://www.k12.wa.us/QEC/Meetings.aspx” target=”_blank”>meeting materials here</a>. Watch live <a href=”http://www.tvw.org/index.cfm?bhcp=1″ target=”_blank”>on TVW here</a>. Follow the action here (just hit refresh). 9:15am-9:25am <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Brief Overview of Funding Requirements of SHB 2776 — Isabel Munoz-Colon</span> <em><a href=”http://www.k12.wa.us/QEC/DecMeeting/Review_of_SHB_2776_Requirements.pdf”>PowerPoint available here</a></em> [...]
So excited to be back for day two of the Quality Education Council meeting. Find agenda and materials here. Watch on TVW here. Follow the action right here (just hit refresh). 9:15am-9:35am Classified Staffing Adequacy Report — Isabel Munoz-Colon PowerPoint available here 9:35am-11am Projected Costs of Implementing SBE Proposed Graduation Requirements — Edie Harding, Shawn [...]
The Quality Education Council is meeting today and tomorrow in Olympia. See the agenda and all materials here. Watch it live on TVW here. Follow my blog thread right here (just hit refresh on your browser). 9:15am-10:25am State Reform Plan Goals — Supt. Randy Dorn, Shawn Lewis PowerPoint available here >>Mary Jean Ryan suggested strengthening [...]
