WHEREAS the release of carbon dioxide and other pollutants is causing devastating and perhaps irreversible harm in our state and around the world, including increasing global temperatures; declining snowpack that reduces water supplies; more frequent and more destructive forest fires; acidification of our waters threatening shellfish populations; and a dangerous…
WHEREAS more than one million students attend public schools in Washington State, comprised of about 80,000 students at each grade level and WHEREAS only 60,000 of theses students graduate from Washington high schools each year, leaving about 20,000 students annually who do not receive the help they need to graduate…
WHEREAS not being enumerated in Article I, Section B of the U.S. Constitution, education has historically been left to each State per the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution; WHEREAS the copyrighted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of controversial academic standards that were created for the whole…
