Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

We’ve had a great advocacy week thanks to so many of our AWSP members reaching out to meet with their legislators. I have enjoyed the...

“What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren’t making it for the long haul.” ~ Calvin Trilling. Substitute the...

Each week of this session has brought a slew of new bills, ideas, and conversation related to education funding and policy. In addition, there is...

Legislators propose policies and budget dollars. Sessions, also, often focus on main themes. This year’s focus issues are Budget, Covid–19, Equity (Racial and Police-related) and...

Week three of the legislative session ended today. We saw some of the first floor action this week with several critical bills passing the House...

Hearings are being held every day and the challenge is to communicate one’s position within the one minute typically given to testify. Because of the...

High-quality childcare and early learning experiences are essential for children and their families. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, finding care has been very difficult for many...

Here in Olympia, there seems to be a constant stream of bills that will eventually have hearings dropping each day. There are also budget discussions...

Even though the Democrat leadership has asked members to limit the number of bills they introduce, clearly, they and their Republican counterparts didn’t listen. Even...