For the 2011-2012 school year forward, Academic Booster Club has decided to purchase SMART Boards for the 5/6th grade classrooms that do not have them (Pope, Brouillet, and Maplewood) as we believe the 5/6th grade curriculum, particularly math, will be enhanced using SMART Boards. The first SMART Board has been ordered and ABC will purchase [...]
STUDENT PLANNERS – ABC helps build organizational skills for QUEST students! From Janelle Burger, Teacher Representative to ABC Teachers, students, and families are so grateful to ABC for helping with the purchase of student planners. One challenge that many of our highly capable children face is organization. Is something due? When is my presentation? I [...]
As of September 1st, 2011 Highly Capable Education is legally mandated as a part of basic education in the state of Washington. The Washington State Constitution holds that funding basic education is the paramount duty of the state. As part of basic education, funding should now be protected and stable, and not subject to elimination [...]
Received from the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education: The Legislative session has finally come to an end. In virtually last minute votes, the Legislature approved a budget (E2SHB 1087) which is “kind” to gifted programs; enacted the new “minimum instructional program of basic education” and the HCP funding formula in ESSB 5919, effective September 2011; [...]
Thank you for participating in the 2011 Academic Booster Club On-Line Silent Auction! Winning bid amounts are listed below the items, and winning bidders are being contacted via e-mail. In more than one case, two identical high bids for an item were received, so the first high bid received won the item. Items that did [...]
There was good news and excellent news for Highly Capable Programming in the initial House Democratic Budget proposal released on 4/4. The 2011 - 2013 budget proposes just over $18 million in funding for highly capable programming over the next two years. That is very comparable to the amounts funded from 2009 – 2011. [...]
