Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

ESB 5175 passed this last legislative session, allowing a district to offer a principal a contract of up to three years if certain conditions are...

OSPI, the State Board of Education, and the Washington Student Achievement Council held a webinar this week where they shared updates on new legislation related...

As a 2022 interim project, Senator Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island), Chair of the Senate Committee on Early Learning and K-12 Education, asked committee staff to...

The House and Senate pounded their gavels one last time on Sunday, April 23, as they declared “Sine Die” for the 2023 Legislative session. This...

Sine Die approaches and a sense of glee and panic pervades the air as multiple bills either pass or fail to advance. Concurrence, recession, and...

As Sine Die approaches, the legislature will go ‘dark’. Negotiations between both chambers, caucus members, the Governor’s office, and legislature leadership will be taking place...

Just ten more days of this year’s legislative session remain. All policy bills had to pass off the floor of the opposite house by April...

We are in the final few weeks of this year’s legislative session, which should end on time on April 23. This week the April 4...

As Sine Die approaches, action on bills received from the opposite house continues at a brisk pace. And bills (balls) continue bouncing. As mentioned earlier,...