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Understand the consequences of underfunded K-12 students |
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Our WA State Legislature— Who needs to know you |
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Your Legislators are Policymakers For Everyone We must provide clear direction and majority support to our elected officials to develop the necessary education policy — get to know your legislators, and let them get to know you. Our elected public officials — Governor, Senators, Representatives — create and determine the laws that our appointed public officers — OSPI Superintendent, SBE, etc — implement into policy with the 295 elected local School Boards and their district administrations. Links to Your Legislators Communicating with your government is easy and effective. Email, call or write your elected and public officials - they work for you. Following are links to your WA government individuals: If you don’t know your Legislative District # or legislator, select the “Find Your District“ tab to look up all the contact info with just a few clicks by your address and zip code. If you do know your District # — 2009 List of WA Legislators & Contact Info (an Excel file to open or download) —lists every legislator by Legislative District number, plus their school districts and counties . More advocacy files for contacting your legislators: · 2009 WA Legislature Ed Funding Advocacy Database (an Excel file to open or download): This is a complete resource of data on the WA legislature — cross-reference to leadership and committees roles, admin assistants names, office location, school districts, WSPTA Regions, etc. Create mailing lists, an email database, etc. Explanation of the 2009 EF Advocacy Database File · Washington Legislature Website (wa.gov) · WA Olympia Capital Campus Map 2008 · 2009 School Districts per Legislative District per PTA Region Legislators To Get To Know This section in progress, thank you for your patience — Some people are more engaged advocates than others for education issues. The same goes for our elected legislators—we’ve made two lists: 1) Legislators to thank now - our fellow education funding advocates, and what they are doing.
These public servants in the WA Legislature have been working thoughtfully and diligently to bring improvements to our public education through accountable fiscal policy: District Representatives House Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) Rep. Glenn Anderson (R-Fall City) Rep. Don Barlow (D-Spokane) Rep. Kathy Haigh (D-Shelton) Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48th, Medina) Rep. Fred Jarret (D-Mercer Island) Rep. Ruth Kagi (D-Lake Forest Park) Rep. Phyllis Kenney (D-Seattle) Rep. Marko Liias (D-Mukilteo) Rep. Skip Priest (R-Federal Way) Rep. Dave Quall (D-Mount Vernon) Rep. Pat Sullivan (D-Coventon) Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-Seattle) Rep. Pat Sullivan (D-Covington) District Senators Sen. Lisa Brown (D-Spokane) Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe (D-Bothell) Sen. Rodney Tom (D-Medina) 2) Legislators we are working with to thank later - key influencers & leaders on whom to focus our attention with the real-life stories to ensure their full awareness of priorities.
Other public servants in the WA Legislature have been working thoughtfully and diligently to bring many improvements to our state, but perhaps with extra care we can also thoughtfully help to focus their fiscal policy in regards to public education: District Representatives District ## - Rep. Name District ## - Rep. Name District Senators District ## - Senator Name District ## - Senator Name
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Funding Washington Schools |
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The Governor has 5 days, excluding Sundays, to take action on any bill passed by the Legislature, provided adjournment does not occur within those 5 days, in which case the Governor has 20 days to take action, excluding Sundays. |
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2009 Session Cutoff Calendar For a detailed daily version of the calendar, please see 2009 Session Cutoff Calendar (PDF 32 KB). See below for a version of the Calendar describing only the cutoff dates:
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