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January 23, 2020

WSPTA asks Legislature to Make Broad Investments in Special Education

On January 22, parent volunteer Susan Leusner testified before the Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education on SB 6117, a bill that would add about $11 million to special education funding to support students who spend 80% or more of their time in general education classrooms. Here’s her testimony.  
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Category: Advocacy , Legislative

January 20, 2020

2020 Legislative Session – Week 1 Recap and Look Ahead to Week 2

Historic day kicks off 2020 session Prepared by Marie Sullivan, WSPTA Legislative Consultant, legconsultant@wastatepta.org The House kicked off the 2020 session January 13 by swearing in Rep. Laurie Jinkins, D-27, as the first woman Speaker of the House in Washington state history. Jinkins and many colleagues wore white in celebration of women’s suffrage, and Jinkins…
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Category: Advocacy , Legislative


January 13, 2020

WSPTA Testifies before House for Budget Priorities

Click to hear President Kutzera’s testimony Washington State PTA President Janice Kutzera testified in front of the House Appropriations Committee today, January 13, on the opening day of the legislative session. Read her full testimony. She spoke to HB 2325 Supplemental Operating Budget. President Kutzera asked the committee to support four budget priorities. Fund the…
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Category: Advocacy , Legislative

January 13, 2020

2020 Legislative Session – Pre-session Report

Legislature expected to act quickly in 60-day session Prepared by Marie Sullivan, WSPTA Legislative Consultant, legconsultant@wastatepta.org The second year of the 66th Legislature will convene Monday, January 13, with Democrats holding the Governor’s office and majorities in the House and Senate. The Senate will swear in one new member, Republican Ron Muzzall of Whidbey Island,…
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Category: Advocacy , Legislative


January 1, 2020

January 2020 – WSPTA Executive Director Message

Dear Members, Happy New Year! Wow, it’s 2020. I can hardly believe it. I have been a lifelong fan of science fiction and grew up on Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. In the annals of science fiction, these are the years when space operas play out, the years when robots have either enslaved us all…
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Category: Leadership


December 1, 2019

2019 WSPTA Legislative Assembly Recap

Attendees to the 2019 WSPTA Legislative Assembly kept up to a relentless pace of attending classes, issue topic education, caucusing and consideration of resolutions and issues. The theme at this year’s sold-out event at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA was “Superheroes of Advocacy”. The event kicked off with a general session bipartisan legislator panel featuring…
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Category: Advocacy , Legislative