Weekly Update: 40+ School boards in Texas say enough is enough on testing, Arne Duncan gets an “F” and another one for the “How Low Can You Go?” category
Never a dull moment in the world of education.
In the state of Washington we had some drama this week with Senator Rodney Tomdeciding that he would hold the budget and the state hostage so that he could get his charter school legislation through by attaching a charter school clause to the originally agreed upon budget. Anything for a buck with some of our politicians. His backers are the usual suspects including the League of Education Voters (LEV), Stand for Children (SFC), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Nancy Ballmer who sits on the Advisory Board for SFC , Kelly Munn with LEV, Lisa MacFarland, and Nick Hanauer.
The Governor has reprimanded the State Senator from the wealthy suburb of Bellevue and told him and others to get serious, cut out the charter school shenanigans and get to work with a real bill.
It will still be well worth an e-mail or call to the Governor to make sure that she stands firm and to our
In the state of Washington we had some drama this week with Senator Rodney Tomdeciding that he would hold the budget and the state hostage so that he could get his charter school legislation through by attaching a charter school clause to the originally agreed upon budget. Anything for a buck with some of our politicians. His backers are the usual suspects including the League of Education Voters (LEV), Stand for Children (SFC), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Nancy Ballmer who sits on the Advisory Board for SFC , Kelly Munn with LEV, Lisa MacFarland, and Nick Hanauer.The Governor has reprimanded the State Senator from the wealthy suburb of Bellevue and told him and others to get serious, cut out the charter school shenanigans and get to work with a real bill.
It will still be well worth an e-mail or call to the Governor to make sure that she stands firm and to our
