Kent parent Brooke Valentine has launched a great project to show our representatives in Olympia the many faces of highly capable children. We hope that you’ll join in and share what highly capable looks like in your house. From Brooke: I have a project that I am hoping all of you will embrace. I think [...]
“Failure to help the gifted child is a societal tragedy, the extent of which is difficult to measure….They are the difference between what we are and what we could be as a society.” — Dr. James J. Gallagher, University of North Carolina The Governor has proposed to eliminate all state highly capable program funding for [...]
It’s too soon to know exactly what the impact of any state cuts to highly capable program funding would be in Puyallup, but that doesn’t mean that our kids aren’t thinking about it, and even letting their concerns get away from them. I was in a class of 3rd and 4th grade QUEST students yesterday when one [...]
Received from the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education: The state Legislature has passed the second supplemental budget bill and it restores highly capable funding to the level in ESSB 6444 – $18,377,000 for two years, including $170,000 per year for Centrum and $90,000 per year for Future Problem Solving/Destination ImagiNation. That is, the 6.287% across-the-board-cut [...]
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, [...]
