Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

The Problem Every few weeks another story breaks. A teacher or coach with a documented history of inappropriate conduct toward a student. Hired by a new school or college that never knew. Sometimes the warning signs were in a personnel file the new employer never asked for. Sometimes an investigation was underway and the employee simply resigned before it finished. Leaving no formal finding for anyone to disclose. Sometimes the law on the books simply did not require anyone to check. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in our own district. Shoreline Community College hired a former Henry M. Jackson High School physics teacher. Who had resigned from Everett Public Schools. While under investigation for a years long inappropriate relationship with a student. Shoreline never called the high school. State law did not require it to. Washington's 2020 disclosure law. The first of its kind in the nation. Required colleges to check with other colleges. Not with K-12 districts.  ...

The Civic Service Academy: A Phase by Phase Plan to Rebuild Trust and Rescue Failing Schools Before a tech company launches a product it runs a beta test. Before a car reaches the road it goes through years of testing. We prove that it works before we scale it. Everywhere except public policy. This is a proposal to do better. It addresses two national crises at once. The first is the widening gap between the American military and the public it defends. The second is the slow abandonment of children in failing schools. One proven model can begin to answer both. And we will test it carefully  in the open. Before we ask anyone else to adopt it. A National Problem Not a Local One The military and the country it protects no longer know each other. Fewer Americans than ever have a parent, sibling or a neighbor who served. The armed forces now recruit from the same families and the same regions year after year. While most of the nation has no personal connection to the instituti...