WASA Legislative Report with Dan Steele
Summary: The Washington Association of School Administrators will be posting a short podcast from Dan Steele on a regular basis throughout the 2024 Legislative Session. This podcast will focus on key legislative issues in the state of Washington to keep WASA members informed of hot topics and emerging conversations in Olympia. More info can be found on our website at https://wasa-oly.org.
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Podcasts:
House of origin cutoff arrives this week, with major movement on key K-12 priorities
The house of origin policy and fiscal committee cutoffs have passed and action moves to the Floor. In the last two weeks our major priorities have been drastically changed, but we also saw some good news, too.
The house of origin policy cutoff came last Friday, with the fiscal committee coming this Friday. There has been frenetic activity as legislators try to beat the clock. K-12 priority bills continue to move--with major adjustments.
As the Legislature's first deadline approaches, K-12 priorities continue to move. This podcast discusses movement of the Good...the Bad...and a bit of the Ugly.
The Legislature's first cutoff date approaches, further increasing the level of activity. Special Ed funding is the highlight this week.
The 2023 Session is 1/5 of the way to Sine Die on April 23. Priority K-12 legislation continues to move, while we continue to deal with some negative issues, too.
The 2023 Legislature is moving quickly. Education priority bills--and bills of concern--are already on the move.
Legislators are already moving quickly to hear and advance bills--including some key K-12 issues.
Jan. 9 is the first day of the 2023 Session. The engagement process for this session is reviewed.
The 2022 Legislature has adjourned. This podcast provides a brief review of the final budgets and some of the key bills.
The last week of session has arrived. We await final budget negotiations and continue to fight for bills remaining on the table
The Legislature has hit the homestretch as budgets move to negotiations and bills make a final run at passage.
Budget Week on Olympia. As the Legislature starts to wind down, budget introduction, debate and negotiations heat up. There's good news--and not so good news for K-12.
House of origin cut-off arrived this week--and K-12 priority bills continue to move. Revenue Forecast to be released this week, starting the Budget process.
The Legislature just moved past two major cut-off deadline. Hundreds of bills immediately died; however key K-12 issues continue to move. We need your help to keep them alive!
