Jobs Act grants will fund improvements to deliver energy and operational costs savings in state’s K-12 public schools and colleges OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire and State Superintendent Randy Dorn…
School accountability the focus for Rep. Maxwell in new appointment
OLYMPIA – State Rep. Marcie Maxwell (D-Renton) will serve on the Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Education Accountability, a new body tasked with examining ways to boost school accountability across…
Rep. Pedersen’s 2010 End-of-Session Newsletter (with Speaker Chopp)
Click below to read Rep. Pedersen’s 2010 End-of-Session newsletter (in PDF format):
Education Data
For a number of years we’ve been working on improving the collection of data about education. This has been painful – there are 17 different data systems across K-12, plus…
Conservation NW – People who do real work
Tricie and I spent last weekend in the Okanogan looking at the work of the local land trust and of Conservation NW, the umbrella organization that is working to protect…