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Retirement & Health Benefits for February 7, 2020
Legislative actions continue. As this is being written, the deadline for policy bills to leave committees has arrived. The next cut-off is February 11 for all bills that have a fiscal or monetary impact â either positive or negative. The Legislatureâs fiscal committees, Senate Ways and Means and House Finance and Appropriations will be very…
Learn MoreAWSP News for February 9, 2020
In this episode of AWSP News, we discuss February as Future Educators Month, our âGive âEm Your Keys Campaignâ, AWSP's third annual Future School Leaders Day, our Networked Community Improvement grant, Black History Month, our January Leadership and Advocacy weekend, the AWSP Day on the Hill, Senate Bill 6615, AWSLâs Middle-Level Regionals, Â Summer Conference and…
Learn MoreOSPI School Safety Tips for February
Groundhog Day. Â We look for a sign: winter coming to a close or continuing for 6 more weeks! Â Valentineâs Day. We share signs of love and appreciation. Presidents Day. We recognize our presidents, a sign of our democracy. And robins. Sure signs of spring. Letâs hope we see some soon!
Learn MoreRetirement & Health Benefits for January 31, 2020
The big push has begun as bills will be moving out of their house of origin in order to clear the policy and fiscal deadlines and move toward adoption by the chambers. Some bills have yet, if ever, to be scheduled, and are not reported here yet, they may not be dead. Remember that bills…
Learn MoreThinking About Retirement?
Since covering pension/retirement/health insurance issues on behalf of WASA and AWSP, there are a few important points we have learned. This is just a brief summary of selected retirement related topics. However, the importance of advance planning cannot be overstated. These are not issues to put off until the last month of either oneâs impending…
Learn MoreAWSP News for January 26, 2020
In this episode of AWSP News, we discuss our January Advocacy Weekend, our annual Day on the Hill, the changes to our governance structure, AWSP's third annual Future School Leaders Day, a Networked Community Improvement grant, MTSS Fest, our âA Matter of Principalsâ podcast, our survey about the pay gap and your workload, a Seattle…
Learn More5 Things You Should Know About AWSP – Winter 2020 Edition
Hi there. Itâs your friendly state principals association reaching out to say hello. Be honestâŚhow many of you just opened this blog post by accident? You might have meant to click on an update about Harry and Meghan and landed here instead. Either way, welcomeâŚweâre glad youâre here. A lot of you know us well…
Learn MoreRetirement & Health Benefit Report for January 24, 2020
Hearings and any resulting actions moving bills out of committees have begun as both houses move toward the first cut-off date. This is only a summary of bills that have had some degree of action to date or have been recently introduced. Last weekâs report covered all the bills that been introduced to date.
Learn MoreRetirement & Health Benefit Report for January 17, 2020
In the beginning, there were close to 300 bills pre-filed even before the Legislature convened. And then, once started, new bills continue to be introduced. Included among those are a number of bills affecting pensions, health, and job benefits.
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