Prioritize Education Funding for the End of Session
House Budget Writers
The legislative session will end on April 23rd. We have a brief window to ask for education funding to be prioritized as budgets are finalized and legislators finish the session's work. Any funding we can gain from legislative actions this session can help reduce the amount that Shoreline will need to cut in the upcoming years. We need your action today!
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To:
House Budget Writers
From:
[Your Name]
Dear Representatives Ormsby, Macri, Bergquist, Stokesbary, Santos, Davis, Ryu, Kloba, and Duerr,
On behalf of the Shoreline PTA Council – and of the individual parents, students, and community members, who have signed onto this letter – we want to thank you for the forward motion on special education and the phase-down approach to regionalization.
We further ask you to please continue making education a top priority in these final weeks.
In the remainder of this session, we ask that you please:
- Move as close as possible to the Senate position on special education using state dollars, not one-time ESSER dollars.
- Ensure that any items originally designated for public education in the initial budgets, which now are no longer alive (e.g. HB 1479), be maintained as investments in K-12 funding. Ideally these funds can further bolster special education or transportation as much as possible.
- Support Senate Bill 5770, co-sponsored by Senators Salomon and Stanford, to lift the arbitrary 1% per year cap on state and local property taxes, in order to bring in further revenues for public school funding.
We deeply appreciate your efforts to support our schools.
Sincerely,
Shoreline PTA Council & all individual signers of this letter