Public Education in Washington State

re: Public Education in Washington State

katie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:07:38 GMT

Yes I agree with you Washington is a beautiful state wounderful environment. Washington State, home to many companies needing highly educated.There are many companies like microsoft and other which are famous in the world.

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Roger — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:33:11 GMT

Mukilteo school district Is now charging me $260 a month so my son can go to kindergarten for a full day. not only that Odessey Elementary is withing 100 yards from my home yet we need to bus him to lake serene for him to go to school 5 miles away? I would have never moved here if I had known the shambles this place is.

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Jennifer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:19:06 GMT

The Colville School district is appalling. They have spend thousands of dollars on software, to check your childs grades and progress and never keep the site up dated. We buy new sporting uniforms and have antique computors and a serious book shortage. We complain and the superintedent says the school board is for fiscal issues only, so don't even bother to go to a meeting-So I say I am going to write the state board of education, and he tells me go ahead they won't do anything! Levys hardly ever pass and when they do we are behind from the previous failures. It's all about lack of money-never do they ever admit they are at fault! I believe we are at a crisis point in Washington state, when are we going to wake up?

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Todd — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:01:48 GMT

The school district up here in little San Juan County is looking at a $600-800K shortfall in our budget for the next year. This is due largely to the unfunded mandates mentioned above - unfunded special ed costs (this is out of control) and unfunded teacher raises. Plus, the cost of everything is going up and the State revenue is not keeping pace. In the next week or so we have to figure out what to cut as we're not allowed to run over our budget. Gregoire is asleep at the wheel on this one.

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Ryan Hurst — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:43:22 GMT

Great write up Jesper, I don't know if I ever told you but I gave up on Washington Schools some time ago, to a great extent due to my experiences with Woodin and Hollywood Hills; its very sad - more here: unmitigatedrisk.com/.../187.aspx

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Allen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:36:38 GMT

I'd be interested to see where Washington ranks in "money spent by private school lobbyists." Just curious if maybe someone is taking advantage of the "12th highest personal income per capita in the nation" ranking.

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Debbie Jones — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:04 GMT

Another problem with funding in Washington State is special education funding. State law sets a cap of 12.7 percent for special education. If you happen to be in a district with more than 12.7 percent of your students in special education (like ours), the district has to fund any excess out of district taxes and levies. According to both state and federal law, school districts must provide appropriate special education for children with special needs. Besides, we can either fund special education and help children with disabilities become contributing members of society or we can not fund special education and wind up with them filling our jails, welfare rolls, and becoming a drain on society.