Reporting from Education Leadership Team Meeting
The Mayor had organized an Education Leadership Team awhile back and I finally got to attend a meeting today.
The Team is made up of City staff, SPS staff, UW staff, community college reps, business reps and labor reps. It's quite a diverse group (well, in what they do - not so much diversity in what they look like). SPS staff there today included Pegi McEvoy, Duggan Harman and the Superintendent.
Most of the meeting was about the legislative agenda for each group.
The overwhelming talk was of McCleary and its enactment. Basically it was stated that the McCleary decision said:
- not spending enough on K-12 education
- the way the dollars are received is structurally unsound
- the outcomes are not good enough to create
The Team is made up of City staff, SPS staff, UW staff, community college reps, business reps and labor reps. It's quite a diverse group (well, in what they do - not so much diversity in what they look like). SPS staff there today included Pegi McEvoy, Duggan Harman and the Superintendent.
Most of the meeting was about the legislative agenda for each group.
The overwhelming talk was of McCleary and its enactment. Basically it was stated that the McCleary decision said:
- not spending enough on K-12 education
- the way the dollars are received is structurally unsound
- the outcomes are not good enough to create