Tuesday Open Thread
Unhappy with Pearson ? Apparently you are not alone. Speaking of Big Brother, here's the SBAC's "Guidance for Social Media Monitoring during the Field Test." The State Senate is to drop its budget this week. Let's see how that fulfillment of McCleary is going and where they find the funding. I spoke to Speaker Chopp last week and that's pretty much all he would say. I note that when I mentioned that while I think preschool is great, that the Constitution says K-12 is the state's paramount duty and that I was worried about the push that both preschool and higher education are receiving this session. He said something to the effort that there would be more dollars for preschool but not in McCleary. Whether it's in McCleary or not is not really the point. Because, frankly, education dollars are education dollars. I note that there's a new group, Why Not Us Washington that is pushing the Legislature to invest more in preschool. ...