The Obama administration under Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made $4.35 billion available to districts that demonstrate they are making progress in four areas: Standards and Assessments Data Systems to…
Race To The Top Funding
Education Funding in 2010
This will be a difficult year for short-term funding of education in Washington, and in almost all of the other states. In 2009 we cut everything that moved in the…
Education Standards
As all of you who have children know, they will often live up to what you expect of them, as long as they believe the expectations are reasonable. My consistent…
Budget Stalemate in Albany Puts Strain on New York State – NYTimes.com
It’s worth reading this article in today’s NY Times about how dysfunctional the NY legislature is in dealing with their budget problem. We will have a significant problem this year…
Incremental Progress on the SR-520 Bridge
Last year the legislature passed a bill (HB2211) that authorized tolling on 520 starting in 2010. I voted against this for a variety of reasons, but mostly because the bill…