The Washington State Senate yesterday passed a bill that would allow charter schools to continue operating in our state. The bill passed on a near-party-line 27-20 vote. It now heads to the state House.
The state Supreme Court made the bill necessary last fall when they struck down charter schools as unconstitutional. According to Q13 Fox, the bill “mirrors the voter-approved 2012 initiative that created charter schools, with a change in the way the schools are financed.” Specifically, the bill proposes using the state’s Opportunity Pathways Account (which has revenue from the state lottery) as a means to fund charter schools.
Only Democrats opposed the bill. Notably, two Democrats abstained: Democrat Senators Kevin Ranker and Cyrus Habib. You can check out the role call below:
Sen. Habib was excused from having to take the tough vote (choosing between kids and the Washington Education Association) in order to attend a personal family health matter. Habib is also running for Lieutenant Governor.
It will be interesting to see if Sen. Habib is pressed by the mainstream media to publically state how he would have voted on the bill. His constituents, and those statewide he wishes to serve, deserve to know where he stands on this important issue.
Good, the “Public” school system is failing the Children. America should be the top scholastically we are in the 20’s and 30’s for most metrics compared to the remainder of the planet. This is due to the corrosive and corrupt influence of the WEA and the Dept Of Edu. (from the same government that gave us the War on Poverty creating more poverty and the War on Drugs making drugs more available).
If you love and respect your children get them out of the public schools, many teachers and administrators put their kids in private schools. GO figure.
If enough people take command of their children’s education the system of corruption and indoctrination will fail.
Care about your children, they deserve better.
Charter schools get less funding than public schools and perform far better on average (there are exceptions, but not all public schools are remotely the same either). Therefore they its be stopped, before the public realizes the public schools do the minimum they can for the most money they can wheedle out of the state.