I’m pleased to report that we were able to add just over a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in new money to education funding in Washington, or about a 12% increase. This…
Moody’s, Fitch upgrade state’s credit outlook
It sounds like a report from a hospital’s intensive care unit, but the word from two leading national credit-rating agencies deals not with physical well-being, but with the state’s financial…
Rep. Lytton to help oversee efforts to improve failing schools
Rep. Kristine Lytton has been named a charter member of Washington’s Education Accountability Oversight Committee. The bipartisan panel will monitor implementation of a new law approved during the 2013 legislative…
Fair season’s in full swing
No doubt a modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville would write home about our love of a good summertime soirée. Any chronicler of everyday life in our 50 states would need search…
Brown Center: “Obama’s Preschool Proposal is Not Based on Sound Research”
While I’m not sure I agree with the scary headline of this post from the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, I totally agree that we should…