Rainier Beach Responds to the League of Education Voters Attack on Its’ School and Community
In a race to promote charter schools and teacher performance evaluations based on test scores, it seems that the League of Education Voters (LEV) is hurting rather than helping the community that they purport they are trying to assist. With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?
LEV is a 501c organization with no membership but the financial backing of Nick Hanauer who at the moment is having a hissy fit because the Democrats that he has backed in Olympia are not doing his bidding, and Bill Gates who is all about charter schools. LEV has been pushing for charter schools for two years now. The organization is a cardboard cutout of “concerned citizens” trying to depict itself as an advocate for education. My question recently has been ” Who decides within the organization what is worthy of the staff’s time and effort?”