Paper Tigers is a movie about the real lives of real kids. It explains why and how poverty and related adverse childhood events such as hunger and homelessness affect the academic performance of students. At a time when most high schools are needlessly increasing the stress on students by requiring them to pass endless high stakes…
This is a report on the Education Funding Press Conference held by the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn from 10 am to 11 am on Tuesday April 14 2015. In short, Randy called for extending the deadline to fully fund public schools by an additional 3 years from the current 2018 deadline…
Recently, both the House and Senate have proposed “band-aid†budgets that ignore a direct order from the Washington Supreme Court to fully fund public schools. Both budgets also ignore the will of the voters to lower class sizes. Both budgets continue to give away billions in tax breaks to billionaires while depriving our state’s one…
This afternoon, a miracle happened in Washington State. The Washington State Democratic Party became the first Democratic State Party in the nation to pass a resolution opposing Common Core! This is huge because Washington State is not only the home state of Bill Gates. It is also the home state for the SBAC Common Core…
Part 1 The Navy Plan to Turn the Olympic Peninsula into a War Zone David Spring M. Ed. Director, Washington Environmental Protection Coalition November 18 2014 Everything is connected to everything else…. The health of our State’s economy cannot be separated from the health of our States environment. And the health of our environment…
5:30pm to 8 pm at UW Kane Hall in Seattle 7 to 9 pm at Bellevue College Theater To attend, RSVP at our website, CoalitionForPeaceNow.org. Friends, Are you tired of endless wars and immoral bombing of innocent women and children? Join us to hear the national leader of the Peace Movement and winner of the…
According to the Washington State Treasurer, Jim McIntire, economic recovery is just around the corner. Herbert Hoover said exactly the same thing in 1932 – just months before nearly every private bank in America went broke due to their excessive gambling on Wall Street. As State Treasurer, Jim manages about $70 billion in pension funds…
Whereas more than 1,000,000 students attend public schools in Washington State, comprised of about 80,000 students at each grade level; and Whereas only 60,000 students graduate from Washington high schools each year, leaving about 20,000 annually who have not received the help they need to graduate – in part because our state has consistently provided…
2/11/14 at 6:00 PM at the Jackson Federal Building in Seattle Washington Details: Meet at the Jackson Federal Building. 915 2nd Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98174 (between Madison Street and Marion Street). Bring signs if you have them. Leaders of the ACLU, independent media reporters and members of our State legislature have been invited to speak….
Well, I just read the McCleary II Opinion and as a parent of an 8th grader in the most over-crowded school (Twin Falls Middle School) in one of the most over-crowded (and under-funded) school districts in the United States, I am deeply offended. Both the Legislature and the Supreme Court admit that the Legislature is…