Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
LEV co-founder Lisa Macfarlane was one of sizable group of concerned citizens and representatives of organizations in Olympia today participating in the House Ways and Means Committee work session, which focused on the K-12 budget. The work session explored how budget cuts would affect three main areas: · LEA (levy equalization) (Read our Government Relations [...]
Dr. Mark Anderson, associate superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, 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 once-a-day email digest. Local Effort Assistance (LEA), also called levy equalization, [...]
This blog post was written by Lindsey Van Zanten on behalf of the Seattle Families and Education Levy campaign. Ballots have arrived – please vote YES! For the past few months, I have had the fortune of volunteering with the Families and Education Levy campaign, heading up field coordination efforts while working with and learning [...]
This blog post was written by Barb Billinghurst for our edCored series on education funding. Barb is one of LEV’s Key Activists and school finance researcher. 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. The 1889 [...]
This blog post is part of our edCored series on education funding. Levy talk is not, for most people, very interesting. That may be about to change. With the upcoming special session focused on filling a nearly $2 billion shortfall, you will start to hear a lot about “LEA.” Typically a fund with broad bipartisan [...]
It’s bond and levy campaign season again! Are you new to this? Trying to get your head around how to run a campaign? Worried about the economic climate? Want to learn how to use social media? There are two excellent trainings available to you. These trainings are designed for campaign committees or individuals from committees [...]
Calling all superintendents, principals, school public relations professionals, school board members and campaign committee volunteers! Save the date for the 2011 School Election Conference sponsored by Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation and the Washington School Public Relations Association. This free one-day workshop is a must for anyone planning a school bond or capital levy. Thursday, September 15, [...]
Election night returns show the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s bond is failing with 55.7 percent of the vote. Although the bond received approval from a majority of voters, passage of the school bond requires 60 percent of the vote. It’s still too early to call the election. The SnoValley Star reports that voter turnout has [...]
The results of a hand recount in the Snoqualmie Valley School District bond election are in today. The bond officially failed by just two votes. The results are another poignant reminder that every vote counts! The district is now considering whether to try again in April. Read more details in this SnoValley Star article.
Parents and community members in the Snoqualmie Valley School District came through in a big way when they heard that the school bond was failing by one vote. The final election results posted Feb. 23rd showed the bond received 5,972 approval votes (59.99%) out of 9,955 cast in the election. Just one vote was needed [...]
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