If you have already contacted your legislators about the most recent threat to highly capable funding, thank you. The proposed cuts released late on November 23rd do not appear likely at this point. If you have not yet had a chance, this is still a good opportunity to establish a relationship with your representatives and make them [...]
Just before Thanksgiving, Governor Gregoire made a proposal to the legislature that would eliminate all State highly capable funding for fiscal year 2011, effective retroactively to September 1, 2010. A full listing of her proposed cuts can be read on the website of the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education. In order to make that change, [...]
There are two important ABC events happening this week, and one other highly capable story at the state level that you should know about. Full details are available on our website. ABC Family Night in the Museum District, November 18th from 5;00 to 8:00pm Gift Card Orders Due on November 19th Highly Capable Technical Working Group [...]
On Tuesday, November 16th, Gayle Pauley from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction delivered the recommendations of the State’s Highly Capable Program Technical Working Group to the Quality Education Council. The Washington Coalition for Gifted Education, the political advocacy arm of the Washington gifted community, has links to the text of the proposal [...]
Did you know that ABC is an Amazon Associate, and that they have paid us nearly $500 in the last year for orders placed after users clicked on one of ABC’s links to Amazon? On the right side of this page is an Amazon School Rewards link. Start your Amazon shopping by following that link, or [...]
A reminder that gift card orders are due to your child’s classroom on Friday, November 19th. A representative from ABC will pick up orders from each site on Friday so that we can place our orders and ensure that the cards are received in time for holiday gift giving. Our gift card fundraiser is one [...]
