Judge vs. teachers in Kent
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. Some leaders of Washington’s teachers unions seem to share the credo of Boeing’s machinists: You’ve got to strike on a regular basis, or you...
View ArticleComing Friday: School reforms, immigration detention centers
Here’s what we’re working on for tomorrow: A dogged pursuit by the New York Times has exposed troubling evidence about the lengths federal officials have gone to cover up cases of mistreatment and...
View ArticleA classroom view of school reforms
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. Many people presume to speak for teachers: lawmakers, parents’ groups, the Washington Education Association, various K-12 lobbies. But there’s no...
View ArticleRediculous
Let us stipulate that, say, 85 percent of teachers in this country know how to spell. The teachers I know do. And that 95 percent of them act like adults. That’s been my experience, too. But oh, how it...
View ArticleOn other NW editorial pages today
Here’s what some other opinion pages around the region found worthy of comment today: • Tracy Warner, editorial page editor of the Wenatchee World, says the First Amendment presumably would “preclude...
View ArticleAgreed: Merit pay no quick fix for public education
This editorial will appear in Monday’s print edition. Critics of school and teacher accountability are finding a little too much validation in a recent study of merit pay. The study, conducted by...
View ArticleMaster’s bump: $330 million a year for nothing
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. The Legislature is facing the greatest revenue crisis in generations. Somebody in Olympia ought to be talking about $330 million that gets spent...
View ArticleProfessionalize the teaching profession
The governor’s new combine-the-state-school-agencies plan got us thinking about ed reform again. Here is a powerful argument for treating teachers as professionals, not union workers. Higher pay, more...
View ArticleFix the schools, fix the teaching profession
This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. Credit Gov. Chris Gregoire with out-of-the-box thinking for her plan to restructure the bureaucracy of education in this state. We just wish...
View ArticleOne teacher’s take on arming educators
Arming teachers? Andrew Milton, who teaches eighth-grade English teacher at Pioneer Middle School in DuPont, doesn’t like the idea: Rep. Liz Pike from Camas has expressed her intent to offer a bill...
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