The Legislature approved and Gov. Jay Inslee signed a two-year budget to give most of Washington's 2,400 K-12 public schools $27.2 billion, an all-time high. That's a 20% increase over the last two years, up $4.4 billion.

For years, state officials have said education administrators should produce an annual assessment of public schools 'that is simple to use and understand” to give parents and taxpayers a clear, understandable measure of each school's performance. I

On Feb. 14, some members of the state Senate sent a rather strange valentine to Washington's high school kids. They voted to cut the Running Start program. Running Start is the successful educational program created in 1990 under the Learning by Choi

Last month was National Charter School Week and Mother's Day. What better gift could we have given to the mothers of children in Washington state than to drop the ongoing effort to stop kids from attending a charter school? A charter school is a commu