Education funding: Let’s hear it for donors

Let’s hear it for musician Quincy Jones for his $50,000 donation to Washington Center Faculty’s jazz program. With extra assist from music lovers throughout the town, it’s going to maintain this system going for an additional 12 months. Then Nesholm Household Basis help will kick in.

And let’s hear if from attorneys and jurists who may assist maintain Franklin Excessive Faculty’s mock trial class going. In line with the article, that class motivates college students to grasp many expertise concerned in conducting a authorized trial. The long-term profit to the scholars and to society are apparent.

And let’s hear it, too, from know-how professionals able to assist restore Washington Center Faculty’s Know-how Entry Basis, a program “aimed toward enhancing tutorial outcomes for college students of shade … targeted on educating science, know-how, engineering and math.”

Seattle Public Colleges need assistance right now, and it ought to come from many elements of the inhabitants. Straight or not directly, all of us in Seattle profit when our colleges supply high quality schooling.

Michael and Beret Kischner, Seattle