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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…
Opinion: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Washington state’s Blaine Amendment
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center explains how ‘now that the baleful influence of this mean-spirited provision has ended, Washington lawmakers are fr…
Opinion: WEA asks state Supreme Court to ignore voters and blow open the door for income taxes
Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center reveals information from a brief filed by the Washington Education Association.
Opinion: Giving families resources and choices would stop the endless controversy and bring peace to public education
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center shares her thoughts that the current education system is based on coercion, not choice, and does not account for th…
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: State Board of Education consultant says purpose of Ethnic Studies/Critical Race Theory curriculum is to “destabilize” and “tear down” public education
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center shares her testimony before the State Board of Education.
Opinion: Stop diverting education money to WSSDA’s lobbying operation and fund music, art and athletic programs instead
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center reveals how public school officials funnel millions in public money to one of the largest political lobby operation…
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…
Opinion: State superintendent document says top priority for spending federal COVID money will be Critical Race Theory-type programs, not student learning
Liv Finne, of the Washington Policy Center, shares a document from the OSPI about how COVID funds will be spent in public education.
Opinion: A series of new laws now require Critical Race Theory sessions in public education, universities and medical schools
Liv Finne of the Washington Policy Center takes a closer look at the decision to introduce Critical Race Theory in Washington’s public schools.
Opinion: Systemic discrimination in the public schools; legislature cuts funding for public charter schools’
Liv Finne, director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, comments on the decision of majority lawmakers to cut the charter school make-up funding in the f…