EDUCATION: Legislators failed to do their duty

The long, simmering legislative session is over. For some, it brings relief. Perhaps for others, a sense of accomplishment. For me, it elicits a sense of disappointment.

Legislators should be sending apologies to students, teachers and families. Their inability to work in the best interest of education is a failure to fulfill their primary responsibility.

Although funding increases for education will have some positive impact, they still fall short of mandated funding levels. A 176-day log jam driven by political maneuvering is counterintuitive to motivation from moral purpose.

Rating lawmakers' performance on a four-point rubric assessment places them at an unsatisfactory to basic rating, far short of proficient to distinguished levels of leadership performance.

Fox Island

This story was originally published July 13, 2015 at 11:19 AM with the headline "EDUCATION: Legislators failed to do their duty."