Happy New Year (Make an Education Wish)
What's your education wish for 2015? Let's go with three wishes; one for Seattle Schools, one for the state, and one national. 1) For this district, a perennial favorite of mine, a School Board that does its REAL job. Providing oversight and accountability. Examining the "priorities" of the district vis a vis school-based needs/parent desires. Not accepting excuses from upper management on serious issues. But this will not come from the majority of the current Board (clearly) so we have the work to find, support and elect four new people for the Board. (I know - it's a big job but it has been done before.) 2) You might have thought I would say "enact McCleary" but honestly, that's the Legislature's job and it's the constitutional mandate. There shouldn't even be any discussion that drags on for months and months. Nope, my wish is for the Washington State Supreme Court to overturn the charter school law. I think the law...