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

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.

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

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

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

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?

“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

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

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

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