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 [...]
This week started in Dallas with the Association of Community College Trustees looking for answers to student achievement. It was a meeting at once inspiring and overwhelming. Here were hundreds of volunteers committed to the education system that has done more to uplift and sustain the middle class than anyone ever acknowledges. They’re struggling with [...]
SkillUp Washington, an organization dedicated to expanding access to gainful employment to low income adults, will be hosting a community forum on establishing strategies for helping more adult students receive college credit. The forum, which will take place November 3rd at South Seattle Community College, will discuss issues such as ensuring more adults have access [...]
Now is the time to tell your legislators what you think about the state of higher education in Washington. The House Higher Education Committee is hosting a Chautauqua to hear a broad range of voices, from students to staff, to parents and advocates, with a focus on student completion. The committee wants your input on [...]
Four Washington community colleges made the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program’s list of the top 120 community colleges in the nation. The colleges demonstrated high standards for learning, college completion without delay, and community colleges as training grounds for jobs that pay competitive wages. The four Washington colleges are: Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom in Lakewood, [...]
Washington State needs to produce more college graduates to fuel its economy over the next decade according to a new report by the Higher Education Coordinating Board. The Regional Needs Analysis Report shows Washington employers continue to import a large number of its skilled workforce from outside the state. And a recent forecast of future [...]
Perhaps in anticipation of the craziness coming in the next couple of weeks, Week 5 turned out to be a relatively quiet one. However, the LEV team was still busy working on our priorities and here were some of the week’s highlights: On Tuesday and Friday, LEV’s legislative director, George Scarola, testified in both the [...]
It was a big week for education (cradle to career) at the Legislature this last week with hearings on a wide variety of issues of critical importance. LEV and friends were out in force to share our support, concerns, and opposition on a lot of bills being discussed. Some of the issues we weighed in [...]
There was so much going on last week that we wanted to circle back around to one of our big releases – the publication of our 2011 Report Card. Our research and policy team gets a lot of requests for information and data. But one of the most-requested graphics is our Washington’s leaky education pipeline [...]
Week 1 And we are off. The Legislative Session began with a gavel bang on Monday and will continue apace until April 24th. On Tuesday, the Governor gave her State of the State which LEV briefly commented on earlier this week. Also on Tuesday the 11th, the House Ways and Means committee took testimony on [...]
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