As educators, we know that too often standardized exams and high stakes assessments reflect our educational system’s white cultural biases and they in effect hold back students and educators of color.  The COVID-19 pandemic, since it...

The quarterly state revenue forecast came out today, and as expected, it is challenging.   WEA members know better than most that basic education funding is protected by our state Constitution, as affirmed by the McCleary lawsuit...

April 4, 2020 When the legislature adjourned in mid-March, the coronavirus was just taking off in Washington state. Within a matter of weeks, the state projected a significant decrease in revenues...