A Bill, A Bill! They Wrote It On the Hill!
You’ve seen how Washington Learns has evolved. Tomorrow, you’ll watch it come into full bloom. But what about the spawning?
Based on a tip in the comments section (thanks, JL!) I went and looked up Senate Bill 5441, the seed from which Washington Learns grew. It was characterized as a wish list of everything that Governor Gregoire or anyone else in Olympia ever thought or heard about how to fix the education system—and yeah, that’s actually pretty accurate. A game of Buzzword Bingo could be won before you got to the end of the second page.
It’s been said that you don’t want to know where laws and sausages come from, but all the same I’d encourage you to give this a look, along with the bill history. It’s good school trivia that you can drop into your next evaluation debrief.
Based on a tip in the comments section (thanks, JL!) I went and looked up Senate Bill 5441, the seed from which Washington Learns grew. It was characterized as a wish list of everything that Governor Gregoire or anyone else in Olympia ever thought or heard about how to fix the education system—and yeah, that’s actually pretty accurate. A game of Buzzword Bingo could be won before you got to the end of the second page.
It’s been said that you don’t want to know where laws and sausages come from, but all the same I’d encourage you to give this a look, along with the bill history. It’s good school trivia that you can drop into your next evaluation debrief.
Labels: Washington Learns
posted by Ryan at 9:47 AM
1 Comments:
So true about "buzzword bingo." I cracked up at that!
The WA Learns report is a disappointing piece of work. The editorials on it are noticing that it is a collection of stuff to try--yet no prioritization is offered and no answer to the questions about provision for education.
I honestly think the report could have been written by three staffers from the governor's office in a week without the bother of $1.7 million spent on it.
jl
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