Seattle Schools Community Forum: Charters and McCleary: A Round-Up

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Charters and McCleary: A Round-Up:

Charters and McCleary: A Round-Up

 From Cascadia Weekly:

YOU HAD ONE JOB: With fewer than 20 days left in their short legislative session, a nearly paralyzed state House and Senate in Olympia passed watered-down education funding plans on razor-thin margins divided along extremely partisan lines hours before a cutoff deadline that would have stalled the bills in their houses of origin.

SB 6195 passed the senate by a vote of 26-23. The bill was modeled after House Bill 2633, which passed that chamber in January on a vote 64-34. The bills were reconciled, and approved by a second vote of the House last week, 66-31. They move on to the governor’s desk for signature.

Critics called the final product “a plan to make a plan.”

The reconciled bills are toothless, and do little more than continue to study a problem the dimensions of which are well understood. They kick the can of McCleary down the road to 2017 and are likely insufficient to end the Supreme Court sanction.

That's a damn fine summary.  But wait, there's more. 

I have been recording here the number of newspapers of record who have written editorials of disappointment - among them, the Seattle Times and now the Tri-City Herald.  

Referring to OSPI, the Tri-City Herald gave us this handy list:

His office recently released a list of past studies on education