The Rural School and Community Trust on School Consolidation

The Rural School and Community Trust held a webinar in October on the topic of rural school district consolidation; it was a prescient topic, given the recent directive from the Governor to look at school district consolidation for "administrative savings".

I'm sure that the Rural Education Center at Washington State U. will have something to say about this as well.

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The Hardest Working Man in Washington Education Award: Jim Kowalkowski

He's the director of the Rural Education Center at Washington State University.
He's one of the Superintendents on the Basic Education Finance Task Force that's currently looking at how to overhaul the whole ed finance system here in Washington.
And in his spare time he's Superintendent of the Davenport School District, which is currently trying to get community support for a project to build an expansion on to their elementary school.

I wish I had that sort of energy.

Update (11/29): He's also become an unstoppable man/machine amalgamation, according to the most recent Davenport Times, which unfortunately isn't online. Jim Kowalkowslki is the Lawnmower Man.

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