PSE members met with 120 legislators and staff, delivering 2000 Action Cards and K-12 health insurance stories.
Classified School Employee Week is fast approaching. For 37 years, our state has been honoring classified employees as essential members of the team necessary in educating the community’s children. This year, Classified School Employee Week is all about honoring classified …
Each year, PSE honors members who have gone above and beyond. Some have made outstanding differences in the classroom. Others have made huge impacts in Olympia. We want to be able to recognize these members. If you know someone who …
Each year, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, paraeducators and other support staff flood Olympia to advocate for the state’s classified employees.
It wasn’t pretty, but we did get the comprehensive health insurance reform bill out of the Senate Health and Long Term Care committee.
The success of PSE relies on members willing to step forward and become leaders. If this is something that interests you, please consider running for the Board of Directors. Click here for more information. Click here to download the Declaration …
The first snowfall of the season couldn’t keep more than 175 PSE members out of Olympia for a weekend of education.
Here are some the stories you shared about the importance of affordable health insurance. These will be passed along to politicans so they understand the struggles you face when it comes time for them to vote on health insurance reform. …
The Supreme Court’s ruling on school funding should put an end to devastating budget cuts of the past few years and put our public schools on a quicker path to the investments that are badly needed.
A new report says Washington could improve health insurance coverage for many public school employees by merging the state’s existing patchwork of 200 plans and 1,000 insurance pools that vary town to town. But there’s a big catch: The report, …
For far too many school employees, most of your paycheck goes toward health insurance. But help could soon be on the way. In mid-December, the Washington State Health Care Authority released a report detailing ways to reform health insurance and …
Any member in good standing may submit an amendment(s) to the PSE State Bylaws. All proposals will be reviewed by the Bylaws & Resolutions Committee. The committee will review the proposals and recommend a position to the Board of Directors. …
GEAR UP! will hold three workshops on Sunday afternoon. Local leaders like you will learn new skills to apply to bargaining, lobbying, election work, and other activities that will take place in 2012 and beyond.
There are two ways to get involved with the Day of Action on Nov. 28, when Legislators head back to Olympia to balance the budget.
Want to be paid better in tough economic times? That’s what school superintendent Randy Dorn wants to know. He sent out an email last week to all 160,000 classified and certified school employees looking for input on your salary. It’s …
Nearly 500 PSE members took time to answer a survey about budget cuts after Gov. Christine Gregoire released her $2 billion budget cut proposal.
Karen Whitmore is sure that Cascade Middle School has budding writers. To give these youthful scribes an outlet, she started the school’s after school creative writing club.
Once again, PSE is looking for 100 members who have never been involved with our lobbying efforts before to join Political Assembly on Jan. 15 and 16.
Several PSE Board members, Legislative Council members and staff members met with Jay Inslee, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Oct 28. In the 45-minute meeting, he discussed his thoughts on the future of Washington’s educational system and how classified …