Re: “WA lawmakers sacrifice students’ futures for small savings” (June 8, Opinion):
I agree with the editorial board that the state’s choice to chop funding to the School Success Basis by $12 million is tragically shortsighted.
I labored seven years on the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund committee in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood, serving to to determine our partnership with CSF to make sure that the scholars we served would obtain the sort of counseling and assist essential for profitable school enrollment and completion. Having labored in larger schooling for practically 40 years, I knew it was essential for first-generation college students from underrepresented populations in Seattle’s South Finish to be guided by the faculty course of.
Public center and excessive colleges can not meet the wants of all these college students and profit significantly from the help of organizations like CSF. Group donors are keen to assist, however they need assurances that college students will achieve reaching their school targets. You can not merely provide scholarship funds and assume the scholars will determine every part else out on their very own. CSF has a superb monitor document in scholar completion, because the editorial identified. By gutting state assist for these younger college students, we intestine our state’s future.
Chris Kellett, Ph.D., Seattle
