For Immediate Release | October 14, 2013 Washington State Charter Schools Association (WA Charters) today announced that respected public education and charter school leader Marta Reyes-Newberry will serve as its interim chief executive officer. Reyes will lead WA...
For Immediate Release | September 11, 2013 - Washington State Charter Schools Association (WA Charters) board chair Chris Korsmo issued the following statement on today’s action by the Washington State Board of Education to approve Spokane Public Schools as the...
For Immediate Release | July 8, 2013 – Public charter schools are part of a range of solutions that will enable every child in Washington to have access to a great education. Washington parents and voters agreed with this when they approved Washington’s charter school...
For Immediate Release | May 22, 2013 Contact: Mary Beth Lambert, League of Education Voters, Phone: (206) 335-0191, marybeth@educationvoters.org The Washington State Charter Schools Association is a new statewide nonprofit that will support the start-up of...
For Immediate Release | November 10, 2012 Contact: Chris Barron, Phone: (206) 625-9655, Chris@partnership4learning.org Vote will provide new opportunities for thousands of Washington students Seattle, Washington – After comprehensively reviewing ballot returns to...
For Immediate Release | September 21, 2012 SEATTLE – Teachers United, a young and growing statewide organization of teachers dedicated to improving public education, announced today that it has endorsed Initiative 1240, a measure that will authorize a limited number...
For Immediate Release | August 20, 2012 OLYMPIA, Wash. – Two of the state’s leading business organizations today announced that they are endorsing a YES vote on Initiative 1240, a measure on the November 2012 statewide ballot that will authorize a limited number of...
For Immediate Release | July 6, 2012 OLYMPIA, Wash. - Supporters of Initiative 1240, a measure that will allow a limited number of public charter schools in Washington state, today submitted more than 350,000 voter signatures to the Secretary of State - over a 100,000...
For Immediate Release | May 23, 2012 OLYMPIA, Wash. – A bi-partisan coalition of education advocates, teachers, parents, legislators and community leaders filed an initiative measure today that will authorize a limited number of public charter schools in Washington...