Save Parent Education Programs in Washington

• Click here to Look Up Your State Senator and Representatives by address: Use your home address, your preschool's address, and the address of your affiliated college

• Check if one of your Senators or Representatives sits on an education related committee and consider them a main point of contact

• The most important point:

  • Our solution requires no additional funding from the state. It simply codifies that parents and caregivers in parent education programs should be considered students within the allocation model. This has been the model since 1947.

• Adapt one of these templates

  • Script for Phone Calls 

  • Long Legislative Letter 

  • Shorter Legislative Letter 

• Personalize your letter by adding any of the following

  • Why you value parent education

  • How it has impacted your family

  • IF THESE APPLY, PLEASE INCLUDE: if you were able to take your experiance as a co-op member and transfer that into the workforce

    • Did you become a preschool teacher, a paraeducator, or a parent instructor?

    • Did you use the credits you earned to maintain a certifcation, like STARS hours or OSPI clock hours?

    • Did you use your experiance as a board member in returning to the workforce or explore a new career?

    • Did you take additional classes at a community or techinical college?

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