The Quality Education Council is meeting today in Olympia and the meeting is being broadcast on TVW.
The meeting started with a briefing from the State Board of Education, including the introduction of new Executive Director Ben Rarick, the former budget analyst for the House Ways & Means Committee. The SBE is seeking a more active partnership with the QEC, and Chair Jeff Vincent and Rarick stressed their desire to make more strategic goals that are tied to clear measures, and to anticipate the policy issues the Legislature will grapple with in the future and bring forward recommendations.
The other presentation that has been completed is from House and Senate non-partisan education committee staff regarding the 2011 legislative session, the QEC recommendations from the 2011 report and how they fared in the session, and new work that had been assigned to the QEC.
Updates on the Legislature and state government from the Washington State School Directors' Association.
