Education Blog Posts

Education Blog Posts

Students and parents in Washington State are not getting their money's worth, especially given how much the state spends per pupil. Stagnant test scores and embarrassing graduation rates are the results.

We analyze reform efforts and recommend solutions to bring Washington students a World Class education system to meet 21st Century needs.

May 15, 2013
     

Run for School Board; Change the Future

By 4:00 on Friday the 17th consider filing for school board. Local school boards decide who will be hired, how they will be deployed and removed, what priorities will be funded, what curriculum is used, how students advance, how the schedule is organized, what facilities are needed, what options...Read more here

May 06, 2013
     

Shortened School Year

In recent years, we have seen an escalating trend of school districts in Washington adjusting the schedule to be more convenient for adults. Families and taxpayers should be receiving the school calendar which best serves students.

April 24, 2013
     

Bad Contract: Battle Ground School District

Think your local school board has very little political power? Look at what the one in Battle Ground just did.

April 24, 2013
     

What education costs you

How many hours a day do you have to work to fund American education?

April 19, 2013
     

No Legislative Change on School Days

Legislators who are concerned about the rapid growth in “early release” school days have not been successful at defining the school day. On the other hand, legislators who have responded to school employees’ desire to further reduce the number days students are served have also...Read more here

April 18, 2013
     

Education Budgets Compared

New spending on education falls into four categories: (1) filling gaps, (2) expanding services, (3) expanding costs, and (4) trading inneficient expenditures for more efficient ones. Which do you suppose gets the most attention?

March 26, 2013
     

Indiana Supreme Court: Private Education Vouchers Constitutional

“We first find it inconceivable that the framers and ratifiers intended to expansively prohibit any and all government expenditures from which a religious or theological institution derives a benefit" "The direct beneficiaries under the voucher program are the families of eligible students...Read more here

March 19, 2013
     

Open Letter To Senator Rolfes

During my testimony yesterday expressing concerns about permitting entire schools to shorten their year by five days so kindergarten teachers can do the important work of family outreach, Senator Rolfes asked for documentation that districts have as many as forty-five partial school...Read more here

March 13, 2013
     

Return on Education Investment

If money connected to school effectiveness what would you expect to see? Check out what actually happens.

March 07, 2013
     

Spring Cleaning for the Education Monopoly

The Senate Majority Coalition Caucus is raising crazy questions like, “Are we satisfied that by third grade, 31% of students cannot read at the ‘basic’ level but get passed on to fourth grade...Read more here


 

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