Create a (Washington) state Department of Education that reports to the governor

Outgoing Washington Governor Chris Gregoire:

WASHINGTON'S education agencies are too often focused on the adults, not the children. Among my biggest goals as governor has been to change that, to return the focus to students in a seamless education system from early learning through college, and to provide accountability for that outcome.

It is our moral responsibility to get it right, and now it's also our legal one with the state Supreme Court's McCleary ruling on the constitutional mandate for K-12 basic education funding. In the budget I proposed for 2013-2015, I asked the Legislature to make a sizable down payment on that obligation. That starts with $1 billion for the next two years and grows to $3.4 billion a biennium in six years.

Similar sentiments have been raised in Wisconsin vis a vis the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Superintendent.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 13, 2013 1:46 AM
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