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Opinion: Senate Bill 5054, to cut classroom learning time in schools by four hours a week
Opinion: Senate Bill 5054, to cut classroom learning time in schools by four hours a week. Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center points out that the bill would set the precedent of…
Opinion: New test scores find that if the Catholic school system were a state it would rank number one in the nation
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center believes that expanding choices both within and outside the traditional system would give every family the same learning opportunitie…
Opinion: With student learning down, education officials invent happy-talk metrics to hide the failures of public education
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center believes the strange mixing of ‘proficient’ and ‘made progress’ is designed to hide the widespread failures of the public education s…
Opinion: Union deserves detention for threatening a teacher strike in Kent
Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center shares why more school closures following the learning loss associated with the COVID-inspired school shutdowns are unacceptable
Opinion: The effect of emergency-ordered school closing, learning loss and mask mandates on children
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center offers more insight on how Washington’s school closure policy caused children significant learning losses and other issues.
Opinion: State superintendent says he’s trying to cancel state assessment of student learning
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center shares thoughts on Superintendent Chris Reykdahl’s comments about ‘the collapsing learning levels provided to public school students.…
Opinion: School officials move to cancel learning assessments and automatically pass every student
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center discusses why parent demand for more learning choices is growing.
Opinion: Vancouver school superintendent seeks to end learning excellence program
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center takes a look at the discussion to end the Vancouver School District’s Highly Gifted program permanently.
Opinion: Public schools collect $2 billion in extra property taxes, while student learning continues to decline
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center points out that despite efforts of some lawmakers to return money to taxpayers, Democrats in the legislature have kept the extra tax…
Opinion: Latest state test scores show massive drop in learning at Washington public schools
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center discusses the decline in test scores in reading and math for state tests administered to students in November.
Opinion: As academic learning declines, some officials seek even more money for education
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center shares further confirmation of a disturbing trend in Washington’s public schools.
Opinion: School boards can keep more families from leaving public education by rejecting race politics and focusing on core learning
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center discusses why families are pulling their children out of Washington’s public schools and what school board members should do.