Seattle Schools Community Forum: Dorn's Statement on Inslee's Supplemental Budget

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Dorn's Statement on Inslee's Supplemental Budget:

Dorn's Statement on Inslee's Supplemental Budget

Two words - not impressed.

This is not to say that the Superintendent dissed the Governor.  No, he liked:

Inslee does fund some increases to Jobs for Washington’s Graduates,CorePlus, Career and Technical Education, Healthiest Next Generation initiative, language access for families and discipline equity. And he did raise beginning teacher salaries and increase funding for  mentoring to help decrease our state’s teacher shortage.

But (bold mine),

Although salaries are an element of basic education and should be paid for by the state, the state now pays only a portion of what school employees actually earn. In his budget, Inslee actually digs school districts into a deeper hole because a salary increase applies to a teacher’s total salary, not just the amount covered by the state. That places an additional burden on districts to come up with the difference.

And, of course it all circles back to...

But while all of those things are good, Inslee continues to avoid the real issue of McCleary. 

I’m tired of sounding like a broken record. I’m tired of the so-Seattle Schools Community Forum: Dorn's Statement on Inslee's Supplemental Budget: