WA Legislature: Funding WA Schools

Understand the consequences of underfunded K-12 students

WA State Legislature— Who needs to know you

Your Legislators are Policymakers For Everyone

We must provide clear direction and majority support to our elected officials to develop the necessary education policy — get to know your legislators, and let them get to know you.

Our elected public officials—Governor, Senators, Representatives — create and determine the laws that our appointed public officers — OSPI Superintendent, SBE, etc — implement into policy with the 295 elected local School Boards and their district administrations.

Links to Your Legislators

Communicating with your government is easy and effective. Email, call or write your elected and public officials - they work for you. Following are links to your WA government individuals:

If you don’t know your Legislative District # or legislator, select the “Find Your District“ tab to look up all the contact info with just a few clicks by your address and zip code.

If you do know your District # — 2008 List of WA Legislators & Contact Info (an Excel file to open or download) —lists every legislator by Legislative District number, plus their school districts and counties .

More advocacy files for contacting your legislators:

· 2008 WA Legislature Ed Funding Advocacy Database (An Excel file to open or download): This is a complete resource of data on the WA legislature — cross-reference to leadership and committees roles, admin assistants names, office location, school districts, WSPTA Regions, etc. Create mailing lists, an email database, etc.

Explanation of the 2008 EF Advocacy Database File

· Washington Legislature Website (wa.gov)

· WA Olympia Capital Campus Map 2008

· 2008 School Districts per Legislative District per PTA Region

Legislators To Get To Know

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Some people are more engaged advocates than others for education issues. The same goes for our elected legislators—we’ve made two lists:

1) Legislators to thank now - our fellow education funding advocates, and what they are doing.

These public servants in the WA Legislature have been working thoughtfully and diligently to bring improvements to our public education through accountable fiscal policy:

District Representatives

House Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle)

Rep. Don Barlow (D-Spokane)

Rep. Kathy Haigh (D-Shelton)

Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48th, Medina)

Rep. Ruth Kagi (D-Lake Forest Park)

Rep. Phyllis Kenney (D-Seattle)

Rep. Marko Liias (D-Mukilteo)

Rep. Dave Quall (D-Mount Vernon)

Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-Seattle)

Rep. Pat Sullivan (D-Covington)

District Senators

Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe (D-Bothell)

2) Legislators we are working with to thank later - key influencers & leaders on whom to focus our attention with the real-life stories to ensure their full awareness of priorities.

Other public servants in the WA Legislature have been working thoughtfully and diligently to bring many improvements to our state, but perhaps with extra care we can also thoughtfully help to focus their fiscal policy in regards to public education:

District Representatives

District ## - Rep. Name

District Senators

District ## - Senator Name