Good
morning,
The E-Wire is mainlining coffee
this morning and sitting in the House Education Committee Executive
Session. The following bills were voted out of committee (subject to
signature, of course!).
HB
2017: Changes the deadline for non-renewal contracts for certificated
school employees. This allows districts an extra month to send out the
notices should the budget be passed in special instead of non-regular
session. Passed 19-0
HB 1709
– Requiring a study to develop a foreign language education interpreter
training program. Passed 18-1
HB 1815
– Assuring that education related information is appropriately provided to
parents with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Passed 17-2.
No’s on committee were due to concerns with the underlying costs of the bill.
2SHB
1424 – Enhancing the statewide K-12 dropout prevention, intervention, and
re-engagement program. Third Substitute Passed 10-9 on a party
line vote. No votes were largely due to lack of a funding stream and
Representative Dahlquist indicated future support if funding issues are
resolved before it goes to the floor. (PRIORITY LEGISLATION)
HB 2158
– Concerning dropout prevention, intervention, an re-engagement activities by
educational service districts. Substitute Bill Passed 19-0.
(PRIORITY LEGISLATION)
Onto the E-Wire!
Starting off, here is an article
penned by the TNT this morning about one Robert Brown of Lakewood who has taken
it upon himself to write most of the anti-levy ballot statements in South King
and Pierce County for this upcoming election. http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/01/22/3005509/many-anti-levy-words-only-1-voice.html
Senator Billig of Spokane on the
Summer Brain Drain
Mom’s demand action on gun bills
A review of Thursday’s House
Education Committee Hearing on the 24 Credit requirement by LEV
Updates on the impact on
Education that the new Federal Budget is going to have. Look here for
STEM http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/01/budget_stem.html
and here for Education in general http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/01/16/18budget.h33.html?tkn=WRRF63bQIOpbRwmoWlr6OWE9LdNB6t%2F9T7mB&cmp=clp-edweek
More on School Start times from
Ohio
And in other local news,
embattled Eastside Catholic President resigns
Also, New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo introduces his Pre K Proposal which was met with a “not good enough”
grade from New York City Mayor De Blasio. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/nyregion/cuomo-prekindergarten-proposal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140122
The success of “Year Up, Puget
Sound” program which is designed to help disadvantaged teens of color move into
the job market
Low income schools in Richmond,
California seeing success with “The Mindful Life” project
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/low-income-schools-see-big-benefits-in-teaching-mindfulness/
Paper is still king – but
e-books are catching up
Chicago Schools are having
problems compensating their teachers for the time needed to be effective – and
this is a big problem
If you are going to close the
opportunity gap in obtaining college degrees, you are going to need to increase
scholarship and grant opportunities http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/another-barrier-to-enrolling-a-diverse-student-body-its-expensive/283208/
And finally, something to ponder
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