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The House Ways and Means Committee released its supplemental budget proposal today, including less severe cuts for students than those proposed in the governor’s budget. While the House budget proposes $84.1 million in cuts to education overall, under the leadership of Chairman Ross Hunter, the House is clearly heeding the Supreme Court’s ruling that basic [...]
House Bill 2533 would change the state operating budget process and prioritize K-12 education funding. LEV agrees with the intent and spirit but opposes the legislation. Here’s where we believe the Fund Education First legislation falls short. LEV looks at the entirety of the public education system, from early learning to higher education. We want [...]
Education Week recently released its 2012 Quality Counts report comparing the 50 states and the District of Columbia on education policy. The report covers topics from early learning to college readiness. Quality Counts looked at K-12 per student funding, adjusted for regional cost differences, for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Adjusting for [...]
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 [...]
Someone near and dear to us is getting a lot of buzz for his controversial suggestion that we raise taxes on the rich. That’s Nick Hanauer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder and Board of Directors President of the little ol’ League of Education Voters. His article, Raise taxes on rich to reward true job creators, [...]
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 [...]
In the final entry of a three-part series focused on school funding, we talk with Susan Enfield, the Interim Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. During our discussion, Enfield discusses maintaining professional growth and support for teachers and principals in the face of a budget crisis and her attempts to keep cuts out of the the classroom. [...]
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In the second of a three-part series focusing on school funding, we talk with Mary Alice Heuschel, Superintendent of Renton School District. The 2011 Washington Superintendent of the Year heads a diverse student body, with 89 languages spoken in her schools. Cuts to an already financially-strained district – 54% of Renton students experience poverty – [...]
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While researching our edCored series on education funding, we stumbled upon…well, this guy. He asks a great question: Parents, what are you paying for out of pocket that you didn’t used to pay for? Field trips, printer paper, lab fees, textbooks, tissues…the list goes on. Leave us a note in the comments for some of [...]
This information is part of our edCored series on education funding. A few weeks back, Gov. Christine Gregoire called a group of education stakeholders together to talk about the newest state budget projections. You know the news isn’t good when the governor says she can’t take cuts to education “off the table.” With education being [...]
