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Studies

Putting Value-Added to the Test: A Value Added Model for California
Pacific Research Institute | Harold T. Doran and Lance T. Izumi | June 2004
A value-added model as suggested will result in better evaluation of policy and programs, promotion of better instruction, better measurement of school effectiveness, and improvement of teacher professional development.

Indispensable Tests: How a Value-Added Approach to School Testing Could Identify and Bolster Exceptional Teaching
Lexington Institute | Robert Holland
"A technique of using test data to determine the value that teachers add to the learning of each student - that is, how much they help the child progress academically - could become an important tool for building better teachers and better schools. Value-added assessment makes it possible to isolate the impact of the individual teacher and to respond with appropriate rewards or corrective training."

Assessing Value-Added Assessment
National Center for Policy Analysis | April 11, 2002
"Instead of comparing a student with others as norm-referenced tests do, or solely against an established standard, value-added assessment measures how far the student has progressed at the end of the school year compared to the start of the school year."

Value-Added Assessment: An Accountability Revolution
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation | J.E. Stone
"What value-added assessment offers is a means whereby citizens, policymakers, and school administrators can accurately determine how much schools, school systems, and individual teachers are contributing to the attainment of expected achievement levels irrespective of the students they were assigned."

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At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601�s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question:

"Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It�s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?"

- Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46)
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Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..."

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