Re: “WA lawmakers sacrifice students’ futures for small savings” (June 8, Opinion):
I agree with the editorial board that the state’s determination to chop funding to the Faculty 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 form of counseling and help needed for profitable school enrollment and completion. Having labored in greater schooling for almost 40 years, I knew it was essential for first-generation college students from underrepresented populations in Seattle’s South Finish to be guided by way of the faculty course of.
Public center and excessive faculties can’t 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 reach attaining their school objectives. You can’t merely provide scholarship funds and assume the scholars will determine every thing else out on their very own. CSF has a superb observe report in pupil completion, because the editorial identified. By gutting state help for these younger college students, we intestine our state’s future.
Chris Kellett, Ph.D., Seattle
