Re: “Federal education cuts hit WA schools hard” (July 3, Training Lab):
As a mother or father with two sons in Seattle Public Colleges, I’m disgusted by the continuing efforts to dismantle public schooling — now reaching a harmful new stage with the proposal in Congress to slash $12 billion from schooling within the appropriations funds invoice. Our college district would lose $9-plus million, based on the nonpartisan Training Legislation Heart ($209-plus million to Washington state). These cuts are an enormous assault on our kids’s future.
My sons have discovered a number of devices and completely different languages, they’ve visited the college nurse and we’ve met with faculty counselors. These are sometimes a number of the first packages to go, together with technical units which have made for extra versatile studying.
These cuts would additionally put key providers in danger, together with after-school and summer time packages, academics, psychological well being providers, emergency preparedness and particular schooling assist. And they might disproportionately affect lower-income colleges the place providers are desperately wanted.
If we’re critical about guaranteeing high quality schooling for all college students, not simply the wealthiest, we should reject efforts to defund our public colleges. Assist Washington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, of their opposition to federal cuts and to put money into strengthening our public colleges.
Kelly Winter, Seattle
