SWEA

02/02/2022

WEA is a member-driven, democratically governed organization and the annual WEA Representative Assembly (WEA RA) is its chief policy making body. Once a year, more than 1,000 WEA members gather for WEA RA. This year, the representative assembly will be held virtually April 7-9.
Would you like to represent SWEA as a WEA RA delegate? Nominations are now open. Please complete this form today!

09/17/2017

Hello! Help Needed! Who is the current student on the board of directors? They should be running this page. I have not been on the board or in charge of SWEA for quite some time. Thanks for the help!!

05/29/2015

My daughter missed more school last week due to the state’s standardized testing regimen than she did because of the teacher walkout. But only the latter seems to concern legislators.

05/05/2015

American students face a ridiculous amount of testing. John Oliver explains how standardized tests impact school funding, the achievement gap, how often kids...

04/25/2015

Approximately 2,000 teachers from six school districts will stage one-day strikes Friday to protest state budget plans that fail to fully fund smaller K-12 class sizes and professional, competitive pay and benefits for teachers and school employees.

04/25/2015

WSU SWEA President supporting NBI 17 by seconding the motion

04/24/2015

WWU SWEA President speaking up at the WEA RA 2015

04/20/2015

Teachers in eight local associations from WEA Fourth Corner have voted to stage one-day strikes against the Legislature next week, and other locals are considering taking some sort of action as wel...

03/21/2015

Help defeat ESSB 5748 -- email your legislators! Earlier in March, the state Senate approved Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5748, which mandates the use of state test scores in teacher evaluation...

02/18/2015

WEA-Retired Scholarships Up For Grab!! Free Money For School People!

WEA-Retired offers up to five $1,000 scholarships for the purpose of assisting WEA members to enhance skills in specific education areas and/or attain a teaching certificate. Certificated, classified (ESP) or student (SWEA) WEA members are eligible to apply. Applications for the 2015 scholarships are now being accepted. Complete an Application Form, and submit a Letter of Application using the criteria in the addendum for Certificated members, Classified (ESP) members, or Student WEA (SWEA)members. These forms are all available at www.washingtonea.org/retired.

Application:
http://www.washingtonea.org/content/docs/retired/scholarshpappform.pdf

Requirements (Addendum):
http://www.washingtonea.org/content/docs/retired/certretired.pdf

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