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02.15.2015
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Teacher review reform hits snag
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A waiver from the “No Child Left Behind” rules a proposed bill addresses could soon be unnecessary. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
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Charlene (Charlie) Mayes holds son Gavin at the hospital after the tube is removed from his chest port, in September, 2013 . The leukemia treatment process has become part of Gavin’s routine . Structure is important for any child, but especially one with autism .
A MONROE FAMILY BEARS A DEVASTATING TURN OF FATE WITH GRACE, LOVE AND STRENGTH
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ith three small children, the Mayes home on the north slope of Monroe is a blissfully chaotic place where Mom and Dad often reheat the cups of cold coffee they don’t have time to drink.
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Gavin, here at age 4, has received 16 blood transfusions .
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Homework gets done at the kitchen table. Electronic games are allowed in moderation and the family attends church every Sunday. At 7, Koen is the eldest child. He’s compassionate, intuitive and formidable with a plastic sword. Lucy, age 3, is the youngest. She’s a climber and into everything. In many ways, she is like her mother, Charlene — who prefers being called Charlie — when she was a child. The parallel is so strong that Charlie’s own mom likes to hug her and say, “Ha, ha” in a whatgoes-around-comes-around kind of way. The middle child is Gavin. He is 5 and quite different from his siblings. In many ways, he has brought a tight-knit family even closer as he tries to slay the dragon inside him. Gavin has been a child of
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many surprises. When he was 2, he would spend hours alone in a corner where he’d face the wall and repetitively line up his Hot Wheels into different formations. When others entered the room, he would not turn to look. Gavin was late to talk. Oh, how his parents craved those breakthrough words of acknowledgment, for him to look at them and say “Momma” or “Dadda.” Instead, when Gavin was well past 3, he gazed at his father from his car seat and said, “cantaloupe.” It was random, apparently from an iPad sorting game for preschoolers. Eventually, Gavin did talk — on his own terms. His parents learned to converse with him through lines See GAVIN, Page A6
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OLYMPIA — There’s a new wrinkle in the debate on whether student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers and principals in Washington public schools. It’s Congress. State senators are trying again to pass a law requiring test scores be part of performance reviews. If they succeed, Washington will regain the waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act it lost in 2014. Sen. Steve Litzow, R-Mercer Island, is pushing legislation to start calibrating assessment results into evaluations with the 2016-17 school year. The Senate education committee he runs held hearings on two bills this
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