We've got a few more awards to give out in our legislative session 2010 wrap-up. (Our acCOLAde for Best Lobbyist is here and our Tea Party acCOLAde is here .)

Here's a couple more quick PubliCola 2010 session acCOLAdes:

Policy AcCOLAde: In a session when public policy took a backseat to budgeting, and when Democrats who had been big education reformers last session wilted on teacher reform (while Republicans stepped up with meaningful, but losing, amendments ), one reformer, Seattle Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36) managed to pass a significant piece of legislation.

Carlyle added an amendment to the education bill that lowers the standard for allowing districts to remove unqualified principals from the tough criminal standard of “probable cause” to the more sane “valid reason.”

And this isn't exactly an accolade, but here it is:

Biggest Loser:

Environmentalists. During a session when legislators were desperate for revnue and went about raising taxes and killing tax loopholes, a green proposal to raise the hazardous substance tax—for the first time in 20 years—went nowhere and a proposal to get rid of a $4 to $5 million tax break for TransAlta's coal-powered steam plant in Centralia (the biggest single-source greenhouse gas polluter in the state) was tabled.