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We love this! It made our day. Jerred Erickson, a Spanaway Lake High School Civics, AP Government and Sociology teacher, used our budget calculator for an exercise in his class! Erickson’s AP Government students are participating in a mock Legislative session to, according to his blog Schoolhouse Blog, “understand the dire choices faced by state [...]
Over the past few years, Washington state has seen a steady increase of National Board Certified (NBC) teachers. In fact, Washington is second in the nation for the most new NBC Teachers. The increase in the number of NBC teachers began in 2007, directly correlating with a bill passed in the legislature that awarded a [...]
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, [...]
Frank Ordway, LEV’s Director of Government Relations, testified at the House and Senate Ways and Means Committee (i.e. the folks in charge of the budget) to lay out our priorities for the 2011-2012 legislature. Frank’s testimony focused on four main areas: Specific cuts that concern us most Reform to Levy Equalization (Levy Effort Assistance) The [...]
One of our favorite education vloggers Malcolm Throckmorton offers a great explanation on why legislators are meeting now to balance the budget. Throckmorton also discusses the difference between a biennial and a supplemental budget. Tune in to get a better understanding on what the heck is going on in Olympia.
Washington State is facing another $1.7 billion shortfall, and legislators are now tackling the deficit in a special session. We’ve released a new version of our budget calculator to challenge you to make the tough decisions in order to eliminate the latest budget deficit. The services and programs you decide to cut or keep will [...]
Troy Christensen is the administrator of homeless programs for Pierce County, former chair of Pierce County Coalition to End Homelessness, and former chair of Washington State Coalition for the Homeless who fears that we are living in a seemingly endless cycle of budget cuts that leave an increasingly large number of families homeless. Christensen says [...]
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Over the month of October, we ran a series on our blog called edCored, which featured stories about how dwindling resources are affecting our schools and our children. Our series may be over, but budget woes are not. A special legislative session after Thanksgiving is scheduled to cut another $2 billion from the state’s budget. [...]
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 [...]
We were lucky enough to be joined by Rep. Ross Hunter (D – 48th) for a lunchtime conference call on what’s to come for the state budget, and in particular, what that means for education. Rep. Hunter, Chair of Ways and Means Committee, talked about what the view looks like from Olympia as the special [...]
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