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Author: Dr. Scott Seaman • Date: February 1, 2022
Find yourself frustrated with your current situation as a building level leader? Ever wonder who makes some of these big statewide decisions that impact the...

Retirement & Health Benefits for January 28, 2022

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 28, 2022
The first major deadlines of this short session are February 3rd for policy bills and Feb. 7th for fiscal bills with the ultimate deadline for...

Legislative Update | Week of January 24, 2022

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Roz Thompson • Date: January 28, 2022
The third week of the legislative session was the last full week for new policy bills to be heard in committees and zipped by. Next...

Retirement & Health Benefits for January 21, 2022

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 21, 2022
“I don’t get political” ~ Betty White. We all can’t be Ms. White because the Washington State Legislature is in session and working hard at...

Legislative Update | Week of January 17, 2022

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Roz Thompson • Date: January 21, 2022
The second week of this nine-week legislative session ends today. Things are moving fast. The education committees in both the House and the Senate continued...

Action Alert: Simple Majority Bonds

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Roz Thompson • Date: January 19, 2022
There was a big hearing the morning of January 18th in the House Education Committee on HB 1226 and HJR (House Joint Resolution) 4200 for...

Legislative Update | Week of January 10, 2022

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Roz Thompson • Date: January 13, 2022
The saying that short legislative sessions are like sprints and long legislative sessions are like running marathons is completely true! This week, the 2022 legislative...

2022 Legislative Session Preview

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Roz Thompson • Date: January 5, 2022
Happy New Year! We are days away from January 10th, which marks the beginning of the 2022 legislative session. This short, 60-day session will go...

Happy New Year, and Happy Anniversary AWSP!

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Dr. Scott Seaman • Date: January 5, 2022
This year we are celebrating our 50th year in existence as one of the country’s premier professional membership organizations for principals. Our humble beginning started...