February Checklist for Councils Supporting Local PTAs
February Monthly Tasks Continue assisting with items from the “Ongoing Tasks” list. Refer to the February Checklist for Running Your PTA. Encourage leaders to subscribe to the Action Network to participate in timely action alerts with updates on the ongoing legislative session. As a bonus, subscribers to the Action Network receive the “Focus on Advocacy” newsletter. Remind local leaders…
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December Checklist for Councils Supporting Local PTAs
Ongoing Tasks Review the 2023-24 Standards of Affiliation (SOA) Checklist. Host a training or roundtable at council membership meetings addressing timely SOA requirements. Offer support to local PTAs who may be struggling with any of the SOA requirements. At each council membership meeting, share the SOA items that your council has completed to model best…
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Training
November Checklist for Councils Supporting Local PTAs
Ongoing Tasks Review the 2023-24 Standards of Affiliation (SOA) Checklist. Host a training or roundtable at council membership meetings addressing timely SOA requirements. Offer support to local PTAs who may be struggling with any of the SOA requirements. At each council membership meeting, share the SOA items that your council has completed to model best…
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Leadership
House Releases 2023-2025 Budgets, Negotiations to Start This Week
Prepared by Marie Sullivan, legconsultant@wastatepta.org House Democrats announced their 2023-25 operating budget on Monday, March 27, and the House Appropriations Committee immediately held a public hearing on the more than 1,200-page document that afternoon. Also released on the 27 was the bipartisan 2023-2025 capital budget. Both budgets have some things in common with the Senate…
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Legislative
2023 Bill Status Reports
Each week, Marie Sullivan our Legislative Consultant puts together a list of bills and upcoming events that are associated with our legislative priorities. Reports are up-to-date as of the Sunday before the Legislative week begins. Week 15 – April 17 to April 21 (as of 4/16/23) *Days and times can be subject to change. Past…
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Legislative
March 8 Deadline Ends Journey for Many Bills in Week 9 Report
Prepared by Marie Sullivan, legconsultant@wastatepta.org After a week of long nights, sometimes into the next day for the House, and some difficult policy discussions in both chambers, the Legislature reached the third major milestone of the session on March 8th – the deadline by which bills needed to pass out of the place in which…
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Legislative
WSPTA Advocates Federally During NPTA LegCon’s Hill Day 2023
Prepared by Susan Baird-Joshi, Federal Legislative Chair, WSPTA fedleg@wastatepta.org Fifteen WSPTA members met with five members of Congress (MOC) on March 8, 2023, including the first woman President Pro Tempore, Senator Patty Murray. Other MOCs our delegation met with were Representative Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and staff, and the staff of Senator Maria Cantwell, Representative Pramila Jayapal…
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Legislative
Legislature hits half-way point, March 8th next deadline
Prepared by Marie Sullivan, legconsultant@wastatepta.org March 4th marked the 55th day of a 105-day session, leaving only seven weeks to go before lawmakers will wrap up the business of the 2023 regular session of the 68th Legislature. The House worked late several nights and on Saturday, finally adjourning at 2:15 AM Sunday morning. The Senate…
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Legislative
Advocacy in Action! March 1, 2023
House Education Committee, March 1, 2023 Austina De Bonte, WSPTA member and President of the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education, urged House Education Committee members to pass SSB 5072, universal screening for highly capable students during a public hearing March 1st. Listen to Austina here. Rene Price, testifying on behalf of Washington State PTA, overcame…
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March 2023 – Executive Director Message
Dear Members, Those who have been on their annual treks to warmth and sunshine, know that there has been very little of it. Many vacation plans have gone awry with the storm that blew in off the Pacific coast. So much for big plans! At a conference in 1957, President Eisenhower said, “Plans are worthless,…
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