1. Education Reform: “An Economic
Imperative” or “Too Hot To Touch”?
Lisa Macfarlane
Frank Ordway
2. Agenda
• Terrain Overview Lisa
• Early Learning and WA Kids Frank
• Revenue Realities and Litigation Lisa
• Session Hot Spots Frank
• Schools that Work Frank
• Politics of State and Local Races & F&L
Bargaining
3. Pressing for the reforms and the resources
that our schools need to ensure that every
child in Washington State
gets an excellent education
www.educationvoters.org
4.
5. LEV
League of Education
LEV Foundation Education Voters
Voters
501 c 3 Political Action Fund
501 c4
Research and Policy PAC
Lobbying
www.educationvoters.org
8. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) aims to return the
Democratic Party to its rightful place, first and foremost,
as a champion of children and a reformer of American public schools.
www.dfer.org
11. 10% of Low Income Kids Get BA’s
Conclusion: According to 2007 national data, 9.8% of students from the lowest family income quartile received bachelor’s degrees by
age 24. This compares to 18.3% of students from the second income quartile, 33.4% of students from the third income quartile and
75.9% of students from the top income quartile who had received bachelor’s degrees by age 24.
12. Federal Education Reform Frame
Reforming America’s Schools
Early
Learning K K-12
EH Higher Ed
Standards & Assessments
Effective Teachers & Leaders
Data Systems
Struggling Schools
13. Our Students Aren’t Making It
Through High School And College
Washington’s
average high
school graduation
rate is the 12th
lowest in the
nation
Source: League of Education Voters (2011), Education Week’s Diplomas Count (2010) 13
14. Seattle Public Schools
4th Grade Math MSP by Subgroup, 2010-11
100%
Percent Met Standard
80%
60%
849 1,123
272
1,283
40%
90 2018-19
255
60 Goal of
5 28 74%
20% 7
112 177 478 606 909
137 359
Met 68
3 2
MSP 0% Level 4
3 1 69 104 140 328
Standard 89 62 209 64
177 222 Level 3
20%
-20% 124 863 Level 2
Percent Below Standard
11 193 682 Level 1
40%
-40% 21 337
233
-60%
60%
57
-80%
80%
Number of
Students
-100%
100% Native African Pacific Latino Asian White FRL Not FRL ELL District
American American Islander Total
15.
16. 105 Years to Close the
Achievement Gap If We Don’t
Change Our Approach
17. Washington’s Changing Demographics
And the populations we do the most disservice to are only growing. These
students used to be a small part of our school population, living in small isolated
places; today, as they grow in numbers, they are the future of the state.
17
Source: Washington Office of Financial Management
18. Washington Excels At Importing
Workers To Do The Highly-Skilled,
Technical Jobs That Drive Our
Economy
19. We Are Importing Our Future
Massachusetts Rhode Island
Washington Vermont
WA 2nd in Maryland
New Jersey
Connecticut
WA 2nd in Nation
Iowa
Massachusetts
Nebraska
the Nation Delaware
California
Virginia
Kansas
West Virginia
Minnesota
Colorado North Dakota
for New York
New Hampshire
Utah
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Arizona
Innovation Minnesota
Oregon
Illinois Ranking of Ranking
New Hampshire
Michigan
South Dakota
Rhode Island
Michigan
States Well of 18-24 Indiana
Delaware
Texas Prepared Year Olds California
Georgia Maine
Arizona
to Navigate Enrolled Wyoming
Florida the Global in Some Kentucky
Pennsylvania Virginia
Vermont Economy Form of Alabama
North Carolina College Missouri
Ohio Colorado
Kansas New York
Idaho Ohio
Maine Nation
Wisconsin Utah
Nevada North Carolina
Alaska Illinois
New Mexico Connecticut
Missouri Florida
Nebraska Oklahoma
Indiana Oregon
North Dakota Montana
Montana
Iowa
South Carolina
Maryland
Arkansas
Tennessee
WA 46th in
Hawaii Mississippi
Tennessee
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Idaho
the Nation
Louisiana New Mexico
Kentucky
South Dakota
WA 46th in Hawaii
New Jersey for College-
Wyoming
Nation Louisiana
Alabama
Arkansas
West Virginia
Texas
Washington
Georgia
Going
Mississippi Nevada
Alaska
Source: NCHEMS www.higheredinfo.org (2007); Kaufman Foundation (2010) 19
20. Per Student Funding
15,000 13,667
10,297
10,000
9,058
7,798
5,000
0
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Massachusetts United States Washington North Carolina
Source: http://k12spending.econw.com
