2021 WSPTA Legislative Assembly

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Thank you for attending the 43rd annual WSPTA Legislative Assembly!! We appreciate your engagement and advocacy efforts. You are a very important part of our grassroots advocacy, as we continue to strive towards making every child’s potential a reality.

Three new resolutions and two amended resolutions were approved this past weekend.

New resolutions:

  1. Improving Literacy and Educational Outcomes (18.42) – adopted
  2. Increasing Access and Affordability of Post-Secondary Education (18.43) – adopted as amended
  3. Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth in Highly Mobile Populations (2.27) – adopted as amended

Amended resolutions:

  1. School Construction Bond Reform (18.20) – amendments adopted
  2. Student Assessment and Testing (18.13) – amendments adopted

The Resolutions webpage has been updated with the titles of the new resolutions and are identifiable as *new* or *amended* or *retired*. The full text documents will be linked to these titles by the end of the week for members, local PTAs, and councils to use in their advocacy efforts.

We hope you will help us out be taking 5-10 minutes to complete our post-event survey. Your feedback helps inform the decisions that are made in planning future events. The survey will be open through Friday, October 29.

All event materials, education videos, and panel videos will remain available through the Whova app until November 30. Make sure to keep checking back on the website, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 

Continue the Momentum!!  

Action Network – WSPTA has a super easy way for members to advocate on important issues in a timely way directly with their legislators. The process takes as little as two minutes to send a detailed email to your legislator on issues important to the health, well-being and education of children in our state.  
“How do I sign up?” you ask? It’s easy! Go to this link to sign up and get future action alerts throughout the legislative session. Once you set it up with your address, the program will automatically send to your specific legislators and be set for each subsequent time. When you receive the action alert, the message will already be pre-loaded for you. You have the ability to edit the message, if you desire, to include a personal message or other relevant facts but it is not required.