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Policy Memo on Washington State Initiative 1240 | Seattle Education

Policy Memo on Washington State Initiative 1240 | Seattle Education:


Policy Memo on Washington State Initiative 1240

By Wayne Au
Dr. Wayne Au is an Assistant Professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell, and he is an editor for Rethinking Schools, a magazine focused on issues of educational justice. He is a product of Seattle Public Schools (Garfield Class of ’90), and he earned his BA and MIT from The Evergreen State College. He also taught in Seattle Public Schools (including teaching at a program for drop outs) and in the Berkeley Unified School District before getting his Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, with a minor in Education Policy Studies, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is published widely, including multiple articles in top-tier, peer-reviewed education journals, two solo-authored books, three edited books, and a long list of book chapters and magazine articles.
Policy Memo on Washington State Initiative 1240
I’ve received multiple requests to provide a summary analysis of Initiative 1240 (I-1240). Before continuing I must