Washington State Democrats' Platform on Education has Changed (in a big way)
I have been made aware that the Washington State Democratic platform for 2014 - at least in the education section - has seen some major changes. The last platform's education area is quite different from 2012's platform. There is no mention of ELL students, class size, full inclusion of all students, counselors/nurses/librarians, career training, music and fine arts, foreign language, civics, parent engagement, or a stable funding source for public schools. In fact, the Education section is one of the shorter sections in the platform. Omitted is past opposition to: public funding for charters and vouchers commercial exploitation of students linking military recruitment to educational funding organized prayer in schools No Child Left Behind basing teacher pay solely on student test scores all "so-called reforms that are not based upon sound and objective information, that are disguised attempts to blame teachers for the problems in public educatio...