Statewide education topics
Not looking good for education funding
On Tuesday, state Superintendent Randy Dorn put his partial weight behind the House’s supplemental fiscal year 2010 budget.
Both budgets cuts the state’s share of K-12 public education funding, but according to Dorn, the Senate version cuts entirely too much, at $650 million for the 2010-11 school year.
Dorn said the Senate’s budget has the potential to [...]
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A couple of weeks ago State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn stopped by the Union-Bulletin office. He went over some of the things the state education agency is hoping to do in the next couple of years.
We talked for a while on the Legislature and the uncertain state of education funding. Dorn said a [...]
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A new policy is in place for Walla Walla public schools that helps make sure teens are learning what they should about sex.
The school board last night approved policy 2125, which puts the district in compliance with the Healthy Youth Act, a state law that says districts shouldn’t be teaching abstinence exclusively during sexual education [...]
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