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The Washington Supreme Court’s decision in the McCleary vs. Washington case makes clear that now is the time to move forward with reforms to education funding. The decision validates what parents, students, teachers, and principals have known for a long time–the state is not meeting its duty to fund the basic education every student in [...]
The Excellent Schools Now coalition (of which we are a member) has released a new vision for our state A+ Washington: A Way Forward for All Students. The vision focuses on bringing the input of a wide range of stakeholders to provide solutions for the challenges that face our education system today. This effort is [...]
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 [...]
This blog post was written by Barb Billinghurst for our edCored series on education funding. Barb is one of LEV’s Key Activists and school finance researcher. 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. The 1889 [...]
This blog post is part of our edCored series on education funding. Levy talk is not, for most people, very interesting. That may be about to change. With the upcoming special session focused on filling a nearly $2 billion shortfall, you will start to hear a lot about “LEA.” Typically a fund with broad bipartisan [...]
Last night the Senate took amendments on their budget proposal and passed it out of committee. The Ways and Means Committee adopted a whole passel of amendments including some dealing with the issues we expressed concern over in our summary and testimony earlier this week, specifically changes to ECEAP and the usage of Average Daily [...]
Just today, Rep. Laurie Jinkins (D-27) along with 47 of her colleagues in the House dropped a bill (HB 2078) to close two specific tax breaks and redirect the funds to reduce class size in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms. The League of Education Voters supports Representative Jinkins and her cosponsors in this effort. According to [...]
Today, the Senate Ways & Means Committee held a hearing on three controversial education bills. LEV’s legislative director, George Scarola, testified in support of Senate Bill 5915 with some concerns. The bill would grant tuition setting authority for four-year institutions beginning in the 2013-14 school year. LEV is concerned about the impact on students as [...]
State senators will hold a public hearing on three controversial bills today at 12:30 pm that could change key parts of our education system. The first bill on the docket, Senate Bill 5915, would allow four-year universities such as the University of Washington and Western Washington University to set their own tuition beginning in the [...]
The state’s appeal of the education funding lawsuit is scheduled for a hearing on June 28th in front of the state Supreme Court. It’s been more than a year since King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick ruled that “state funding [for basic education] is not ample, it is not stable, and it is not [...]
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