Update from Team Leaders
Budget and Finance Team Members:
On June 30th, three of the four team leaders met with Larry and Oriana to discuss how the four teams were operating in order to insure we weren’t duplicating efforts. At that meeting we discussed the need to provide additional background to members on all four teams so everyone could operate with the same information. Christie Perkins, Special Ed Coalition, suggested that an analysis done by WEA lobbyist, Randy Parr provided a section by section interpretation of the strengths and weaknesses of the bill (albeit from a WEA perspective.) I am attaching that analysis. If your organization has done similar work, please forward it so we can share all perspectives. Pages 4, 5 and 7 are of particular importance to our team as they relate to our second task below regarding prototype schools.
We’re still waiting on a date confirmation from Ben Rarick and Mary Kenfield, from the House staff. We have asked them to create a matrix for our next meeting of the prototype school funding model as it was originally proposed, as it was discussed by Washington Learns and the Basic Education Finance Task Force and as it was outlined in HB 2261 in order to see if there are differences from its original conception to its current form.