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Letter: ‘Parents recognize the substandard education their kids are receiving in our public schools’
Battle Ground resident Jack Roscoe weighs in on the funding issues in Washington’s public schools.
Opinion: ‘We need some innovative thinking when it comes to education’
…kranz, Clark County Today Editor Ken Vance discusses school funding in the midst of the budget process.
Opinion: State Board of Education pushes for more charter schools and calls for equitable funding
The State Board of Education just published its seventh Annual Report on the performance of Washington’s 18 charter public schools.
Opinion: Proposed bill would cut funding to schools that do not adopt controversial state-imposed curriculum
…public institutions is the decline in the quality of public education and the trend of parents pulling their children out of the system.
Opinion: HB 2494, to add more funding to amply funded public schools, will not help students
…e of the Washington Policy Center believes that what public education needs is not more money, but more common sense reforms.
Opinion: Lack of transparency in how Washington spent $1 billion federal dollars to help students
…Braun shares results of an audit by the U.S. Department of Education which found that Washington state school officials had little oversight in how they spent student funding.
Opinion: Governor Inslee is right to support individual tutoring to help students make up for COVID learning loss
…makers should now consider giving parents access to regular education funding.
State not solely responsible for school construction, WA Supreme Court rules
…ojects to local school districts at the same level as basic education funding.
Washington state’s capital gains tax has generated more than $859M so far
…enges regarding its validity and interstate application for education funding.
Vancouver Public Schools receives grant from the Department of Education to support student mental health
…is one of several hundred schools in the country to receive funding from a school-based mental health services grant program through the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Letter: ‘If we do vote for the schools to have more funding, we can help students get a better education’
Vancouver resident Ellee Nichols offers her support for the Vancouver Public Schools levy on the Feb. 14 special election ballot.
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…