High quality workforce equals student success | GUEST OPINION
The Human Resource Department is committed to provide excellent service and support to all employees. It is our goal to recruit, hire, motivate and retain a high quality, professional and diverse teaching and support staff.
February 8, 2012
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Making a difference with an idea and an email | EDITORIAL
Recently, as I was reading the news on the web I came across one of those articles that made me stop and say to myself, “What a great idea.”
Who needs CT buses? | OPINION
How necessary is public transportation? If you flunk your vision test when applying for a driver’s license, absolutely necessary. If you’re a student commuting from affordable housing to college, very essential. If driving a private car isn’t an option for any of a hundred other reasons, you need buses.
Public school finance: Don’t waste this crisis!| OPINION
Look at a high school text book. Everything is first-class, or was when it was new. It’s tough, colorful, heavy and made to last. If you tried lugging a trade paperback to school and back every day it would be a mess of loose pages within a week or two. Library-rated bindings last longer but even they are no match for the durability of textbooks. Of course that level of quality costs a bundle so with school budgets in crisis you can be sure that school districts are squeezing one more year from nearly used up textbooks.
The Human Spectrum | GUEST OPINION
The strategy announced last week by The American Psychiatric Association to revise the definition of autism will effectively eliminate the autism “epidemic” simply by changing what we mean by the word autism itself. The APA’s strategy has two paradoxical outcomes. First, it neatly absolves society of the burden of supporting a significant population of people whose needs are not changed in the slightest by the clever redefinition of the label that describes them.
Governor, where is the funding for U.S. 2 in your transportation proposal? | GUEST OPINION
It was Sept. 11, 2007, when Gov. Chris Gregoire came to Snohomish County to see firsthand the problems on U.S. Highway 2 that contributed to more than 45 deaths within seven years between Snohomish and Stevens Pass. That day, the governor toured the highway from Everett to Sultan. Then she declared it "a significant safety issue" that needed major improvements.
