It seems that there is still some momentum in Olympia to do something with the basic education legislation beyond the intent implied in the original replacement bills. Conversations are taking place and both the Senate and House have bills that have continued to survive the bill cutoff dates. The Senate bill is ESB 6048 and the House version is ESHB 2261. Below, is a link to a comparison between the current Senate bill and the original, SB 5444. The House bill is not yet at a stage where the comparison can be made.
http://www.wasa-oly.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Publications_and_Papers_Current&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3484
From the comparison we can see that many of the more controversial components around the salary schedule and evaluation components are no longer in place. This bill or the House version may become one that WSSDA, WASA, WEA, PSE, and the League of Education Voters can get behind. So far it seems to be under the radar compared to the original versions.
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Watch out, I'm going to mix my metaphors. It's under the radar because it doesn't really deserve to be in the spotlight. Just as the committee that did the work to rethink education funding dodged the issue by only attending to the plan for distribution of funds and not the plan for collection of them, this education bill dodges or puts off many critical issues. Once again we will fail to take real action for the future. It's always something. This time there is the polical cover of the economic downturn...another half a decade lost.
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