PTA Members Take Action - Urge Senators to Support House Bill 2214 Wednesday afternoon, the House passed House Bill 2214, which will m...

For the second year in a row, legislation mandating schools in high poverty areas to offer a healthy breakfast to hungry children has stal...

Just when you thought the legislative session was going to close on the equitable funding discussion for McCleary, the House and Senate...

Concerned about the effects of McCleary on our long term budget outlook and reacting to concerns from the bond market, the State Tr...

Citing the need to take the discussion on resolving the McCleary Lawsuit to a new level, State School Superintendent Randy Dorn introduce...

The U.S. Senate is at work on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) also known as No Child Left Behind ...

With both the Senate and House budgets now seeing the light of day, there is time to compare and contrast them both. The non-partisan budg...

The Senate Capital Budget Committee heard Substitute Senate Bill 6080 in committee last week. This was the second time the bill was heard ...

For the second year in a row, legislation mandating schools in high poverty areas to offer a healthy breakfast to hungry children has stal...

One hundred and fifty years ago on April 9th, General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Appomattox Courthouse signaling the end of the f...

While our Senators (hopefully) were able to sleep in after their all-nighter, the House was up and about at 8AM for Friday hearings in th...

The House passed their operating budget on a party line vote, but passed a Capital Budget on a 96-2 bipartisan vote on Thursday.  The PTA h...

The Senate ran a marathon hearing on the budget and related bills all day Thursday, ending their session at 4:17AM.  The day started with ...

The Washington State PTA was on hand in Olympia all day Monday to testify on the Capital and Operating Budgets as proposed in the State Hou...

The Washington State PTA led by Legislative Director Sherry Krainick and Capital Budget leads Susan Baird-Joshi and Eden Mack came out str...

The Senate introduced its version of the budget on Wednesday.  Senator Andy Hill headed up the press conference and was flanked by most me...

The Washington State House of Representatives offered up their version of the 2015-17 biennial budget today.  Representatives Patrick Sull...

This was an eventful day for the Washington State PTA.  Although funding for McCleary was not as high as we would have hoped, we were able...

Last week, we shared information on House Bill 1865 which expands student vision exams. The bill passed the House and was heard in the Sen...

This week, PTA activist and McCleary team lead Eden Mack from the Seattle Council PTA joined us in Olympia for the hearing on Senate Bill ...