Really good news this week as HB1410 and SB5444, the two bills to completely gut education that I've been worrying about, have been killed in the legislature. There are varying degrees of dead in Olympia, certainly, but it would be a very, very large shock to me to see the old bills come back in any form.
The two bills two watch now are SB6048 and HB2261. These are "intent only" bills that will codify where the legislature wants to go and have real potential to change what we do here on the local level; they're also being built from the ground up (we've gone from a 111 page long bill to 3 pages!) which gives us a chance to talk about the pieces that should go into the bill instead of needing to fight to have things taken out.
To everyone who called or emailed their legislators, thank you! We had more than 20,000 emails sent to Olympia via the Our Voice WEA website, and any time that we can make ourselves heard to that scale it's a powerful sign to our elected officials. Collective action--catch the fever! ;-)
I'll be keeping an eye on the bills, and as always please feel free to ask if you have any questions!
With thanks,
--Ryan--
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