Washington State Ed News
First Place Scholars, Washington's first charter school, has gotten a one week reprieve for its need to show the Charter Commission that they are stable and on-track. Multiple issues had been found by the Commission including services for Sped and ELL students. Interestingly, former WA state legislator Dawn Mason, who now heads FPS' Board, has taken a tough stance against the Charter Commission, saying that the fault lies with the Commission, not FPS. Her thought pattern is that the CC allowed FPS to open too soon when they were not ready. (This, of course, is somewhat puzzling considering FS had been open for two decades as a school.) She says FPS was concerned and the CC is a late-comer to the issues at the school. On April 5th she said this about the work to be done by FPS: That will of course mean they have to give us time to raise funds, test the new systems, stress test the structures, train our teachers to the measurement systems. That do...