KUOW:
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire asked leaders in business and public education how to pay the climbing costs of public universities. Monday the task force gave its answer. KUOW’s Phyllis Fletcher reports.
The answers are higher tuition and a private scholarship fund. Gregoire spoke to reporters at Aki Kurose Middle School in south Seattle.
Gregoire made drastic cuts in her proposed budget for the next two years, and higher education was no exception. A reporter asked about that. Gregoire turned to the middle schoolers behind her and spoke.
Gregoire: “The message to these students is not to look at what’s happening in the budget today, but to realize the doors of higher education in the state of Washington will be open when you get there. And it will be high quality. And when you get that degree, you can be proud of it. Because with that degree you’re gonna be able to get a good–paying job and you’re not gonna find yourself unemployed in the future.” Read more.
Gov. Chris Gregoire addresses a news conference Monday at Seattle’s struggling Aki Kurose Middle School, which was recently labeled as “low-performing” by Seattle Public Schools. At left is Microsoft executive Brad Smith, chairman of Gregoire’s Higher Education Funding Task Force, and school Principal Mia Williams. Photo/Ellen M. Banner, used with permission from The Seattle Times.
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Wow. What an honor.
I don’t get it. Gregoire’s message, if I understand it correctly, is that tuition will increase faster than ever. Why choose Aki to highlight a state budget that puts college further out of reach than ever for the students there? Begging for charity from businesses to help regular people get an education is nothing to celebrate. Westneat piece yesterday on this score was nice:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2013844712_danny05.html
She is so full of shit I swear I can smell it when I see her picture. That is all.
I know I just said that is all, but…
See how everyone except the white guy looks like they want to smack her. Even the kids have that SMH look on their face. Does the white guy want to smack her too and that’s just what the expression looks like for him?
I’m curious what her handlers/advisors were thinking when they decided to do this at Aki Kurose. It’d be interesting to understand what message they were trying to send. I’m guessing that they are probably clueless but inquiring minds want to know…
When the University of Washington is mentioned, it is often in the context of its capacity as a research institution. How often does one hear about the undergraduate part of the university, and yet I suspect that is where the majority of the student population is. Why not seperate the undergraduate part of the school from the post-graduate and research portion of the school? Let the undergraduate part be publicly funded with a goal to provide undergraduate education at a reasonable cost. The research and post-graduate segment can be privately funded since much of its product seems to be oriented towards the needs of corporations.
the irony…
If only Dino Rossi had won, everything would be better…….
@Erin
Totally true.
The white guy looks like “why am I here?”
and everyone else looks like they are lining up to “whoop that A$$”
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