Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
David Iseminger wrote this blog post for our edCored series on education funding. Iseminger is president of the Lake Stevens School Board, sits on the WSSDA Board of Directors, and was on the Funding Formula Technical Workgroup (FFTWG). He is also a member of the Federal Relations Network (FRN), which advocates for education issues to [...]
This blog post originally was written for and appeared in Seattle’s Child. It 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. Back to school time is a [...]
In the first installation of Konversations w/ Korsmo, Chris talks with Education Trust President Kati Haycock. Kati is one of the nation’s leading child advocates in the field of education. Her work with Ed Trust has her speaking up for what’s right for young people, especially those who are poor or members of minority groups. [...]
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The race is on again! And this time Washington State is serious contender. A couple of months back, Congress announced new funding for Race to the Top. In total, Congress appropriated $700 million, of which a whopping $500 million is set aside specifically for early learning – the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge [...]
Happy Father’s Day, friends. I heard a rumor that it’s summer. I’m having a hard time trying to convince my tomato plants. Onward. Good Night and Good Luck: The news of the week in Washington; Chris Gregoire won’t seek a third term. After nearly 40 years in government, Gregoire’s hanging up the gloves to spend [...]
Kristin Bailey-Fogarty is a Seattle teacher and a LEV board member. I’m really impressed with this post by a fellow blogger on the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession’s blog, Stories From School. To me, this piece represents a positive, cohesive direction educators can go if we choose to take the driver’s seat in education. [...]
From the beginning of the session, LEV, as a member of the Excellent Schools Now coalition has supported the effort to change how layoff decisions are made – to end the Last in First Out policies that don’t take much into consideration other than longevity in the field of teaching. We also support the notion [...]
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