By Peter Callaghan
(From The News Tribune, December 12th, 2011)
Lisa Macfarlane co-founded the League of Education Voters after leading the 2000 campaign to pass Initiative 728 to boost state funding of public schools. A veteran of many Seattle levy campaigns, Macfarlane was one of the LEV’s faces in Olympia, pushing its reform legislation.
She will now become the director of the state branch of Democrats for Education Reform. Unlike other education reform groups, this one is a political action committee that can endorse and contribute to candidates. It’s self description says it seeks to “encourage a more productive dialogue within the Democratic Party on the need to fundamentally reform American public education. DFER operates at all levels of government to educate elected officials and support reform-minded candidates for public office.”