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Change to No Child proposed If Congress passes a bipartisan agreement, it would allow the state to again judge public-school performance. Associated Press and Herald staff Washington would regain flexibility to judge its own public-school performance under a bipartisan agreement announced Tuesday to fix the
federal No Child Left Behind education law. The proposal, announced by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, who is chairman of the U.S. Senate education committee, drew cheers
from school officials in Snohomish County and statewide, even before they were briefed on the details. If the bill is passed by Congress, it would eliminate the need for Washington to regain a waiver of requirements of the No Child Left Behind Law. Last year, the state lost the waiver after state lawmakers refused to answer a demand
by the federal government that they pass a bill that would have required statewide student test results to be used as a factor in teacher evaluations. The state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction had estimated the state would lose control over how it spent nearly $40 million in federal See CHANGE, Page A6
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A pinwheel is a child’s toy. It evokes what children’s lives should be, happy and carefree. Blow on a pinwheel and it spins. It is people-powered. On Tuesday, people devoted to helping kids whose lives have been affected by abuse or neglect planted hundreds of pinwheels on the lawn outside Denney Juvenile Justice Center in Everett. Hosted by the Snohomish
County Volunteer Guardian ad Litem program, the event was a local first. Attended by judges and others working in the court system, it recognized court-appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interests of children in cases involving allegations of abuse or neglect. The program was part of a national “Pinwheels for Prevention” campaign, an effort of the Prevent Child Abuse America organization. Snohomish County Executive John Lovick declared April to be
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Learn more For information about becoming a court-appointed special advocate with the Snohomish County Volunteer Guardian ad Litem program, call 425-3887854 or see the application at tinyurl.com/VGALapplication. National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and thanked the volunteer guardians who help in the dependency process. “They’re
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the ones out there,” he said. The event was also a call for many more volunteers. There are now 183 volunteer guardians advocating for 543 children in Snohomish County Superior Court’s dependency court. Tuesday’s planting of 400 blue and silver pinwheels represented the number of kids now without VGAL representation, according to Kristine Morse, interim community services supervisor with the program.
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7 councils are deciding whether to contract with the county after their emergency services agency realized it couldn’t handle a big event.
EVERETT — Seven cities in south Snohomish County are considering a contract for the county to take over their emergency management in 2016. Each city is supposed to make a decision by June 30, so an interim contract could start in July. The seven cities — Brier, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace, Mukilteo and Woodway — contract with the Emergency Services Coordination Agency, also known as ESCA. The board of ESCA, based in Brier, has voted to dissolve. That recommendation was forwarded to all the city councils for review, said Kerin Steele, board chairwoman. “They’re evaluating what they’re going to do,” she said. The decision in part was prompted by the March 2014 mudslide near Oso. The slide made clear that ESCA wasn’t prepared to handle a major disaster, Steele said. The agency has three full-time staff and a part-time finance clerk. The 2015 operating budget is about $644,000, funded by the cities and through grants. Longtime leaders recently have left the agency, and there were “serious internal issues,” according to a memo written by Pete Caw, the deputy police chief in Mountlake Terrace and vice chairman of the ESCA board. “Vacant positions were not filled as member cities began to question the wisdom of continuing participation,” Caw wrote in the Monday memo. ESCA was created more than 20 years ago so south county cities could maintain local control of emergency management and coordinate efforts to meet state and federal requirements, Steele said. Historically, south Snohomish County has been its own political animal, often running on a different axis than anything north of Everett. ESCA also serves three
Volunteer guardian ad litem Chris Richey plants pinwheels in the grass outside the Denney Juvenile Justice Center during Tuesday’s “Pinwheels for Prevention” event created to call attention to the need for child abuse victims to have VGALs represent them in the dependency process. The volunteers and staff at Denney planted 400 pinwheels for 400 abused kids who have no representation.
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history: On this day in 1904, Longacre Square in Manhattan was renamed Times Square after The New York Times (Today in History, Page D6). On this day in near-future history, Times Square in Manhattan will be renamed BuzzFeed Square after the Internet “listicle” purveyor.
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