The John Muir PTA is happy to share this important advocacy opportunity, led by All Together for Seattle Schools, with this community. We urge you to take action with us, to ensure all students receive the education, resources and care they deserve.
Schools across Washington State, including Seattle Public Schools, face growing structural budget deficits that threaten to cause huge cuts and even school closures. Seattle's projected deficit for next year is $105 million. Our state legislature can prevent this by taking action to fully fund public education during this legislative session.
Here’s what you can do now:
Contact your legislators - First, identify your legislators (link) and find their contact info. Read the one-pager attached to this email with messaging you can use or linked here, or use this form email that you can personalize.
Spread the word to other parents, caregivers, educators, and community members. Share this link with your community and others and ask them to do the same, broadening the impact . Encourage them to sign up to receive our updates and follow All Together for Seattle Schools on Instagram
Share your input with your school board directors, urging them advocate to the legislature for more school funding
Email the Seattle School Board or yours if you are in a different district
Whatever steps you take, please also consider volunteering with All Together for Seattle Schools. Here is a message from them:
We need your involvement! We are a grassroots network of public school parents, mostly in Seattle. A core group of volunteers has been mobilizing since late October, and we have a big lift ahead of us over the next few months and beyond. Our main priority is to educate and mobilize public school families so that they will be heard by district and state decision-makers.
Many of you signed up for this list to continue to receive information and updates. That’s great—keep it up! Some of you may be ready to jump in and volunteer to share the workload. If you want to help, please email AllTogetherforSPS@gmail.com. We need volunteers in the following areas:
Outreach and communication to SPS families and school communities
Tracking and reviewing state legislative bills
Tracking and reviewing SPS board meetings and budget sessions
Providing public testimony (SPS and Washington have virtual and in-person testimony options)
Writing Op-Eds and communicating with media
Reach out to All Together for Seattle Schools!
Email: AllTogetherforSPS@gmail.com
Website: www.AllTogetherforSeattleSchools.org
Follow us on Social Media: www.instagram.com/AllTogetherforSeattleSchools
About All Together for Seattle Schools: We are a group of parents, educators, and community members who support K-12 public education. Amply funded public schools benefit all of us, because educating today’s students is an investment in our state’s collective future.