Contents Part 1: Initiative IP26-645 1. What is Initiative 645 (IP26-645 or I-645)? 2. What is the Millionaire’s Tax, who pays it, and where does the money go? 3. What would I-645 actually change? 4. What does a NO vote do? 5. Why is WSPTA opposing a tax measure? 6. WSPTA didn’t endorse the…

Washington State PTA, founded in 1905, is the oldest and largest volunteer child advocacy association in the state. Our more than 80,000 members share a bold vision for the future in which every child’s potential becomes a reality. Initiative 645 will appear on this November’s ballot with the title “Initiative Measure No. 645 concerns state…

Washington State PTA (WSPTA), founded in 1905 as the Washington Congress of Mothers, is the oldest and largest volunteer child advocacy association in the state. For more than 120 years we have supported strong parent and family engagement in education and promoted environments in which families are valued as primary influences in their children’s lives…

    Contents Part 1: Initiative IL26-001 1. What is IL26-001? 2. What would IL26-001 actually change? 3. Why is WSPTA opposing a measure about parental rights? 4. What would IL26-001 add to current law? 5. How would IL26-001 change parental rights that already exist? 6. What would IL26-001 remove from the parental rights law?…

Washington State PTA (WSPTA), founded in 1905, is the oldest and largest volunteer child-advocacy association in the state. Our more than 80,000 members advocate for the health, safety, and well-being of every child; for schools in which all students are safe and free to participate equitably; and for children’s access to scientifically rigorous, evidence-based health care (1).  WSPTA opposes…