Received this morning from the Washington Coalition For Gifted Education. Comments or questions can be sent to wagifted@earthlink.net or barbaragmaurer@yahoo.com. If you wish to have your name added to their mailing list, send a notice to wagifted@earthlink.net. Education reform legislation appears stalled in the Legislature. Legislators tell us they are not hearing from enough constituents [...]
Among the many changes we’ve made with our new website is an improved mailing list system. Our old system was very labor intensive, hard to manage, and wasn’t particularly flexible. Our new system is much easier to maintain and allows us to offer two different subscription types to meet your needs. We heard from some [...]
Our legislative advocacy work slowed down this week, but that didn’t mean that there wasn’t anything going on. We’ve been watching what the House and Senate have been up to in Olympia, but most of the work on education reform this week was going on behind closed doors. We expect the Senate to take up [...]
As we’ve mentioned elsewhere here and here, the District is holding a parent information meeting on April 23rd at Shaw Road Elementary. The meeting is scheduled to run from 7pm to 8pm. Information will be targeted at adults. We hope you’ll be able to join us to hear the latest news about what our program [...]
Our second annual ice skating night was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who joined us. Turnout was even larger than last year — we had 118 people skating tonight. All skill levels were represented, from first timers through expert skaters. Here are a few of the happy faces:
Greetings QUEST families. I hope that you have had a great spring break! I am very excited to take this opportunity to share the ABC board’s reaction to the recent changes to the QUEST program which have been announced by the district. These changes may at first seem to be unsettling, because they are so [...]
