Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
As you may have noticed, LEV has become a little obsessed with Halloween over the last couple of weeks. And given the really gory details of the Governor’s state budget proposal yesterday, it seems our greatest fears for Washington’s children are coming to life before our eyes. We’ve shown you a budget fright fest for [...]
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 [...]
Hello. My name is Hannah Lidman. You care about education. Prepare to sign this petition: http://wachallenge.org/. As you may have heard, Washington is applying for – and actually has a real shot at winning – a $60 million Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant from the federal government for our statewide early learning [...]
The research is crystal clear that high-quality prekindergarten can and does makes a huge impact on the lives of children – both in the short- and long-term. But sometimes, it takes more than a “dusty, old policy brief” filled with numbers and charts to help us really understand the difference it can make. Sometimes, it [...]
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 [...]
President Obama visited turnaround school Miami Central High last week. In the course of two years, Miami Central High went from an F school to a C school. Miami Central received a $784,000 federal grant to get rid of the school’s principal and half of its staff members, which contributed to the school’s significant improvement. [...]
Today is another national call-in day for early childhood education. Make a “Washington to Washington” call to tell President Obama to prioritize investments in our youngest learners. We have a new Congress ahead of us, and we must do everything we can to get them started on the right foot for young children and their [...]
The Los Angeles School Board has named John Deasy as the new superintendent of the country’s 2nd-largest school district. As the Wall Street Journal points out, he’ll have his work cut out for him: “The Los Angeles school district, the country’s biggest after New York City, has suffered declining enrollment and a 33% dropout rate. [...]
Washington’s young kids need one minute of your time to send a message to Congress. Congress comes back to work today, and if they don’t act — and soon — on renewing early learning funding, thousands of children in our state will not be able to attend the Head Start and child care programs that [...]
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