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Selected items of interest from online news services...

COMPILED 2/8/10 (Refresh your browser for current version)

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In the Seattle Times:
  • Editorial | Judge tells Seattle School Board: Do the math (2/8)
  • Column | Learning not to copy China (2/7)
  • Rigorous college-prep classes skyrocketing in Washington (2/6)
  • Senator backs putting ads on school buses (2/6)
  • State's biggest expense is the hardest one to cut (2/6)

On Seattle PI.com:
  • 165 WA school districts seek $4.6B in M&O levies (2/6)
  • 'At hope' bill dies in Washington state committee (2/6)

In the Tacoma News Tribune:
  • Schooling from home extends teacher's job (2/8)
  • Column | Education ruling should be game-changer for legislators (2/7)
  • Column | Weaker standards a disservice to education (2/7)

In the Spokane Spokesman-Review:
  • School administrators’ pay among highest in county (2/6)
  • Healthier choices at school (2/6)

In the Everett Herald:
  • Editorial | Task laid out; get on with it (2/7)

In the Yakima Herald-Republic:
  • A touch of tech enhances math class (2/7)
  • Valley students show an eye for art (2/7)
  • Editorial | Ruling underscores school districts' need for levies (2/7)
  • No drive for students to learn to drive? (2/7)
  • Dorn, Laverty weigh in on school funding ruling (2/5)

In the Kitsap Sun:
  • NK parents want district to bring back honors classes (2/7)

In the Olympian:
  • From lunch trays to the garden (2/8)
  • Editorial | Levies' failure, not passage, carries real costs (2/7)

In the Bellingham Herald:
  • Column | Now is not the time to give up on school reform (2/6)
  • Blog | A roundup of reaction to school funding ruling (2/5)

In the Longview Daily News:
  • Longview scraps early retirement incentive (2/8)

In the Peninsula Daily News:
  • Public comment invited on DNR's 5-year plan (2/8)

In the Aberdeen Daily World:
  • Open records dispute resolution center bill dies (2/6)

In the Washington Post:
  • Editorial | Obama's quest for a renewed, tougher NCLB (2/6)

In the New York Times:
  • For students at risk, early college proves a draw (2/7)
  • A federal effort to push junk food out of schools (2/7)
  • With stimulus money gone, many schools face budget gaps (2/7)
  • Editorial | Abstinence education done right (2/8)

In the San Francisco Chronicle:
  • Column | The misguided race to federalize education (2/7)
  • Study: Segregation rife at charter schools (2/5)

In Education Week:
  • Debate heats up over replacing AYP metric in ESEA (2/5)
  • Dueling objectives mark stimulus at halfway point (2/5)
 

E-Clips are compiled Monday through Friday (state holidays excluded) and are normally available by 9:00 a.m. local time. Article links are selected from the Web sites of the state's largest-circulation daily newspapers and national news organizations.

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