Local districts feel waiver loss impacts

Cheney and Medical Lake plan approaches to state’s loss of control over federal Title I education funding

The impact of Washington’s losing control of federal dollars helping students in the state’s poorest schools will be felt in different ways depending upon the school district, but virtually all educators agree on one thing — helping struggling students will continue.

“We’ll keep educating kids,” out-going Medical Lake School District Superintendent Dr. Pam Veltri said in an email. “It won’t affect the quality of instruction in our schools and we will move on as usual.”

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan informed the state’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction April 24 that the...

 

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