Seattle Schools Community Forum: Editorial Boards Weigh in on Recent Republican Legislative Action

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Editorial Boards Weigh in on Recent Republican Legislative Action:

Editorial Boards Weigh in on Recent Republican Legislative Action

Basically, the editorials seem to be asking "what are YOU doing to solve problems besides criticizing others?" (bold mine)
From the Daily Herald:

Peterson was dismissed without being given an opportunity to defend her record, nor was she given the chance to resign or withdraw her nomination.

The high-profile dismissal could reflect poorly on the stability of the state's transportation department and its projects, including the $16 billion package that Peterson help the Legislature assemble last year. The state is preparing to seek bonds to cover the first projects in that package, and the turmoil could be seen as a problem by investment firms and could result in higher interest costs for the state.

Including the departure of Kevin Quigley, secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, itself in the process of reforms, the state's three largest agencies will be left with interim chiefs for months. Finding permanent replacements may have to wait until after the November election.
 Even then the ranks of qualified applicants may be thinned by a reluctance to deal with the current turmoil here.

Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, made clear his intentions in a tweet after Peterson's firing:

“Note to other Inslee Appointees: Shape up, Do your job. Serve the people w/accountability. Or more heads are going to roll.”

Recall that the state Senate's current plans would give itself two more years to fix funding of basic education for K-12 schools and end the reliance on local school levies. And remember the $100,000-a-day fine the state Supreme Court levied against the Legislature last year because it has failed to come up with an adequate plan.

That's good advice, senator.

It is always amusing when elected officials want to lambast others' work without realizing that a laser gaze can always be turned back the other way. 

From The Olympian:

The education-funding bar was set pretty low for the Washington Legislature this year. So low there was a danger that lawmakers might trip over it. That appears to be happening.

Zing!

In retrospect it was naïve to expect much. But going into the short, Seattle Schools Community Forum: Editorial Boards Weigh in on Recent Republican Legislative Action: