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PRESS RELEASE April 1, 2004 EFF hires new communications director;
expands Education Reform Center OLYMPIA – The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is pleased to welcome its new Communications Director, Booker Stallworth, and to announce the expansion of its Education Reform Center, which will be directed by previous communications director Marsha Richards. Stallworth holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Communications Rhetoric (with a minor in Economics) from the University of Pittsburgh, and trained with the Leadership Institute. He is the former director of the Allegheny Institute's School Choice Project, and worked as communications director for Freedom Alliance, where he appeared on numerous radio and television shows nationwide. Richards holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Seattle Pacific University, and studied journalism in Washington, DC, before joining EFF’s staff in 2000. EFF’s Education Reform Center will address class size, teacher pay and assessments, early childhood education, education funding and school finance, educating at-risk students, school safety, and student testing, among other issues. The foundation’s major education reform projects in 2004 include a
second-part report on the federal No Child Left Behind Act; analysis of
the “Education Trust Fund” initiative sponsored by the League
of Education Voters; and commentary and analysis on the Washington Education
Association’s plans to sue the legislature over education funding and
run a referendum to defeat charter schools. Contact: Marsha Richards | Education Reform Program Director | 360.956.3482
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance 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) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
