The relative calm in our advocacy efforts is about to come to an end. Thursday will bring a new state financial forecast, and we expect to see the first budget proposal from the Senate Democrats shortly thereafter. You may recall that the Governor proposed eliminating all state funding for highly capable programming in her 2011 – [...]
Received today from the Washington Coaltion for Gifted Education. Follow the latest from the Coalition on their website at http://wcge.wordpress.com or by becoming a fan on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/wagifted. OUR FOCUS FOR GIFTED EDUCATION DAY AND BEYOND The Supplemental Budget has passed both the Senate and the House but in different versions which will need to [...]
Our February 2011 Newsletter is now available to read on-line.
Our January 2011 Newsletter is now available to read on-line.
SENG will be conducting a 2 day comprehensive SENG Model Parent Group Facilitator Training on January 13 and 14 in Seattle at the Seattle Doubletree Airport Hotel. As a part of that training, SENG invites parents to attened a SENG Model Parent Group discussion group the night of the 13th, in order for the newly trained facilitators [...]
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 [...]
