Just wondering when the word “effective” became loaded, pejorative or bad. Over at the Save Seattle Schools blog, there’s a conversation going on that started out as a back and forth over a set of values statements for bargaining teacher contracts crafted by a group of advocates – the League included. At some point in the discussion [...]
Doing the Right Thing Always Matters
January 18, 2010 By
Gates Sr: Race To The Top Provides "Unprecedented Opportunity"
January 14, 2010 By
In front of a packed room of Washington education leaders, Bill Gates Sr. delivered a keynote speech Thursday calling on officials to dramatically improve our education system and to compete for the federal Race To The Top funds. Below are the highlights of his speech. At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, by far and away our biggest investment in [...]
LEV's 2010 Legislative Agenda
January 10, 2010 By
Despite the budget crisis, it’s essential that we make progress to improve education in the state of Washington. We must hold our lawmakers accountable for the first steps in implementing historic education reform legislation passed last year. We must answer President Obama’s call for broad, systemic change of our nation’s schools by submitting a bold [...]
Technology Alliance: Stick with math & science requirements
November 29, 2009 By
(This is a guest blog post by Susannah Malarkey, executive director of Technology Alliance, a statewide, not-for-profit organization of leaders from Washington’s diverse technology and related businesses and research institutions.) If “innovation is in our nature,” then sticking with the math and science graduation requirements should be the natural decision for state policy leaders to [...]
Weekly roundup of education news from LEV
November 24, 2009 By
Education advocates and newspapers quickly weighed in on Superintendent Dorn’s proposal to delay math and science high school graduation requirements last week. LEV has begun to post in-depth analysis on the final Race to the Top guidelines on our blog. We’re also introducing a Question of the Week to encourage discussion on thought-provoking questions about [...]
Video: Randy Dorn Speech
November 21, 2009 By
Weekly roundup of education news from LEV
November 16, 2009 By
The state Supreme Court’s decision and release of the final Race to the Top guidelines have made it a busy last few days in local and national education news. Here’s a roundup of stories from our blog and the media that will continue to shape the education debate for days and weeks ahead. News from [...]
The Supreme Court's decision in Federal Way School District v. State of Washington is problematic
November 16, 2009 By
(This post is written by Steve Miller, who is vice president and founding board member of the League of Education Voters and wrote statewide Initiative 728 and 884. He is a lawyer, vice chair of the Board of Trustees for Bellevue Community College, and previously served for 10 years as a school board member for [...]
"Meet the Press" discusses education reform
November 16, 2009 By
A cast of unlikely characters – Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Fmr. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton – discuss graduation rates, charter schools, Race to the Top…and their plans to improve the quality of education in this country. Required viewing. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and [...]
