Friday, July 24, 2015

National PTA Lauds Senate Judiciary Committee Passage of Bipartisan Legislation to Improve the Nation’s Juvenile Justice System

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., (July 24, 2015) — Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Learn More and Get Your Questions Answered on Washington's K-12 Learning Standards and Assessments

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The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Ready Washington (ReadyWA) invite you to join a telephone town hall meeting a...
Friday, July 17, 2015

The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 Senate Passage

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The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (ECAA) was passed by the Senate on a vote of 81-17. National PTA applauds the leadership of Senators ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Washington State PTA Supports HB 2214

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PTA Members Take Action - Urge Senators to Support House Bill 2214 Wednesday afternoon, the House passed House Bill 2214, which will m...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Updated Post on Social and Emotional Learning / Breakfast after the Bell

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

Not to be Outdone - Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats Offer Their Compensation/Levy Proposals, too...

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

State Treasurer McIntire Makes Bold Play - Offers Comprehensive Tax Reform to Fully Fund McCleary and Higher Education.

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

School Superintendent Randy Dorn Offers Fully Funded "Go-Home" McCleary Proposal

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Citing the need to take the discussion on resolving the McCleary Lawsuit to a new level, State School Superintendent Randy Dorn introduce...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

“Every Child Achieves Act of 2015,” bipartisan Senate legislation to reauthorize the ESEA/NCLB

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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 ...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

A Tale of the House and Senate Budgets

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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...
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Senate Capital Budget with SB 6080 Shows Promise Towards McCleary, but Still Far Off Goal

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

Social and Emotional Learning Marches Forward, Breakfast after the Bell Hits Snag

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

April 9th, 1865 Appomattox Courthouse

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One hundred and fifty years ago on April 9th, General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Appomattox Courthouse signaling the end of the f...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Vaping Bill Heard in House

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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...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

House Passes Operating and Capital Budgets - Let the Negotiations Begin!

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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...

Senate Pulls an All Nighter - Still Working on Budget

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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 ...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

PTA on House Budget - Still Needs Improvement

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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...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

PTA to Capital Budget Committee - Need to Do Better

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The Washington State PTA led by Legislative Director Sherry Krainick and Capital Budget leads Susan Baird-Joshi and Eden Mack came out str...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Some Good, Some Bad - Senate Budget Yields a Different View Than House

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The Senate introduced its version of the budget on Wednesday.  Senator Andy Hill headed up the press conference and was flanked by most me...
Friday, March 27, 2015

McCleary Funding - Better - But Still Falls Short

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