Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Hope Teague-Bowling is a National Board Certified teacher at Clover Park High School in Lakewood, WA and a member of the LEV Foundation Board of Directors. In order to understand my perspective on the issue, it’s important to understand a few premises for my thoughts. 1. What’s best for students should be at the center [...]
Yesterday, Gov. Chris Gregoire proposed $1.7 billion in cuts to state government, while suggesting a temporary sales tax increase to prevent some of the more severe reductions, which include shortening the school year. We wrote that cutting education is the wrong solution for our ailing economy. The Legislature will tackle the budget deficit in a [...]
Scott Markowitz, is a 4th grade teacher at Christensen Elementary School in Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma who became interested in the idea of using developmental assets in his teaching. Developmental assets are individual resources that young people have available to them that help them have positive experiences and become successful adults. Having caring [...]
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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 [...]
Beth Sigall, attorney, special education advocate, and mother of three children, (including one with autism), believes the aim of the school district should be to put every special education advocate out of business. She was inspired to become an advocate when she saw the distress of another parent trying to decipher the special education law [...]
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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 [...]
At the end of the 2011 Legislative session, Washington adopted the Common Core State Standards as its very own. The standards, which aim to bring consistency and rigor to every state’s education, will be brought on in Washington over the next three years. As we transition to these standards, OSPI is looking for feedback from [...]
Dee Klem, a parent of two in the Kent School District who runs the district’s elementary Communities in Schools’ program, wrote this blog post for 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 [...]
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 [...]
Washington State revenues will come in $1.4 billion lower than budgeted through next June, according to Arun Raha, Executive Director of the State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council. The shortfall will put the current budget $1.27 billion in the red. Lawmakers are expecting a special session to implement a plan for the budget before January. [...]
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