Inslee Will Be the Next Governor
DelBene beats Koster in race for U.S. HouseDems hold state’s most competitive district
I am thrilled.
Charter-school initiative has slim lead
Sadly, I predict this will fail. I say sadly because I think the failure reflects racism. Over the last few days of the election I received multiple phone calls, all falsely claiming that charters schools … schools that use no more funds than any other public school … would take funds form the “public” schools that cold be used to educate bBlack kids. One call even came from a supposedly Black educator. The bottom line was the implication that poor parents an d esp. poor Black parents ought not to be able to choose schools the way better off folks do.
Initiative 1240, the charter-school initiative, is likely to lose.
It is losing here and will lose statewide because County accounts for about a third of the remaining votes statewide.
But the No on 1240 campaign was elated that the results remained so close given that they were outspent by about $10 million.
“We did a lot of mail and phone calls the last week and a half, and we think that’s having an impact,” said Marianne Bichsel, spokeswoman for People for Our Public Schools.