News of Interest
The Children's Film Festival Seattle starts this Thursday, Jan. 24th and continues through Feb. 3. Overview of Festival. This includes a pajama party with Caspar Babypants one night, a pancake breakfast and short films the next morning, and a 1924 film version of Captain January. Info for teachers/educators. We have added three extra weeks of weekday morning screenings for groups – so tell a teacher or childcare provider! From the Times, a story about College Bound, the state program that help pay for college for low-income students, which is a great success story. In its first year of paying for college, the program, called College Bound, did much better than expected. In fact, so many low-income students were admitted to four-year schools through the program that it will soon be out of money, using up in one year the $12 million lawmakers set aside for it in 2007 — a sum that was supposed to last two years. Now, 118,000 low-income students acros...