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Could you help to encourage educators, parents and community members to attend the rally for Public Education in Olympia, WA. On April 27 at 9:30 a.m., WEA Representative Assembly delegates will stand on the capitol steps in the final hours of the legislative session to make one last stand for our students, our professions and our schools. Please join us!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you!
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HIGHLY ammused that I’m finding out about this rally here, rather than from WEA.
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I had the same thought, TFTW.
Did also you know that the WA State Senate just passed a budget that includes cutting our cost of living adjustments to fund K-12 rather than closing tax loopholes on businesses? Not that they haven’t done that before…..
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Mary Lindquist did send out an announcement in a recent WEA email. Because the WEA-RA delegates will all be going, we were informed at our Mock RA’s with the hope that local presidents would get to word out to their members. When I saw the announcement about the rally yesterday in Louisiana, I asked if Diane could post ours here too. I hope you will be able to join us. Wear you red!
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You have a beatiful blog. Congrats
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Senators question GOP push to bring corporate strategy to WA education
In a meeting with the press today, Senate Democratic Leader Ed Murray and Sens. Andy Billig and David Frockt discussed their concerns about a package of bills being touted in Olympia as education reforms, but were borrowed from think tanks recently found to be backing legislation that benefits their corporate donors.
“The three bills we heard in the Early Learning and K12 Committee this week, none of them make sense for Washington. And no wonder. They’re cookie-cutter proposals copied from Florida and Louisiana. Not one of these bills moves us one step closer to fulfilling our constitutional obligation to fund basic education,” said Billig.
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I’m a representative of my school district at the Washington Education Association Representative Assembly. I’ll be at this rally with the other reps. We just heard this evening that the legislature will not be in session while we are there. I have personally invited my legislators to join me. If you live in Washington State, please invite your legislators to join us!
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