Tim Wheeler shares a story that, as he writes, “ultimately will appear in my memoir, if I ever complete it.”
During the hottest part of the unsettling heat and dryness, my husband and I found ourselves paying a lot more attention to weather forecasts. One particular forecast was being broadcast while we were in a Seattle area hotel having a so called continental breakfast of chunks of scrambled eggs and 1,000-calorie-each muffins.
This week is the real start of the new year. Parents take their 5-year-olds to their first day of kindergarten, kids return to new grades and new expectations, high schools gear up for football and cross country and soccer, the weather turns colder and wetter, the days are shorter and our teachers renew their calling and mission to educate the children of our state.
Try as it might, Washington just can’t get this charter school thing down right.
When I began preparing this column, it started off as a wistful bit of prose ruminating about the passage of time, an elegy of sorts to mark the passing into a new stage of parenthood. And then it turned into a rage piece.
On Sept. 4, the State Supreme Court derailed Washington’s nascent charter school movement when it ruled that charter school Initiative 1240 is unconstitutional.
Bertha Cooper continues her discussion about SARC and the City of Sequim’s possible MPD
Public schools are not just underfunded by the state as Washington’s Supreme Court has made abundantly clear. Most of them also are failing, according to the federal government.
“During summer’s Dog Days, flies increase in numbers and snakes go blind” … so says an old Farmers’ Almanac calendar to describe the period between July 3 and Aug. 11, known as the “Dog Days.”
When she first opened the Sequim Licensing Depot, Suzan Mansfield had three license plates, including her own, hanging on the wall. Two and a half years later, nearly all available wall space is splashed with color, random letters and numbers from the ever-growing collection of license plates.
It didn’t take long before the Legislature stopped its crowing about how it funded K-12 education and admitted that it was far from the mandates of the State Supreme Court for basic education.
Ryle Lindbergh was the only Washington resident accepted into the Purdue University STEP Program. The one-week camp, hosted at Purdue University facilities in West Lafayette, Ind., focused on engineering.
Editor Mike Dashiell weighs in about gas prices, Port Angeles, and more.