Questions that our Washington State Legislators, State Superintendent...have not answered to our general public

First, my heart goes out to every student who was denied his or her high school diploma. These students are victims that our state superintendent and legislators have abandoned, rejected, and chose not to protect them from injustice. 4,200 students were failed by the people who were voted into office to protect their rights and make educational policy decisions based on evidence-based research.

Questions I am not going to stop asking until our general public gets answers: Without all the "Spin"

1. I want our state Superintendent to explain why he did not publicly take a stand, when it became known in April that there were gross inequities across our state that showed not all 4,200 students at risk were given fair access to all the options of passing the state math standard?

2. I want to know why our Superintendent took eight weeks to release a public records request just a couple days after the deadline for any new legislation to be introduced in the Senate or the House?

3. Superintendent, why have you not released the ethnicity breakdown of the 4,200 students?

4. Senator Litzow, as the education spokesperson for your party, you were out early expressing your concern for our students of minority and poverty, why did you fade away and your voice went silent when you knew these very students were going to be denied their high school diploma?

5. Senator Litzow, if you knew about an injustice, why did you keep the amendment #1450 from moving to the floor for an emergency vote during the Special Session?

6. How do you justify pushing the 2013 state math exam forward as a graduation requirement when you knew that the students most impacted from the inequities were children of color?

7. Senator Litzow and Superintendent Dorn, why have you not faced the great people of Washington State to justify your position for standing firm behind the policy denying the 4,200 students their diploma?

8. Senator Litzow and Superintendent Dorn, why have you not shown any evidence-based research to back your position or to justify why students not mastering abstract math concepts, deserve to be denied and rejected from moving forward in their lives?

9. Washington State Legislators, why haven't you shared with the general public how much of a tax burden you have placed on them without any communication?

10. Washington State legislators, what have you gained by taking 4,200 students out of the workforce and creating loss opportunity to serve in our military?


11. Senator Litzow and Superintendent Dorn, justify your position to our general public why a student who stays in school for four years,meets all general graduation requirements, should get the same consequence as the dropout that left school early?

Research tells us that each high school dropout cost our taxpayers $292,000 over their lifetime and that each dropout remains dependent on government welfare. The majority of students getting their high school diploma move forward in life and find career paths that meet their ability and talents. These high school graduates pay $127,000 in tax revenue over his or her lifetime and is independent of government welfare.

How long do we have to wait before one of you comes out and answers these questions? Our general public deserves to know the magnitude of the tax burden you have created, and your willingness to pass it onto them without any explanation?