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Your PTA dues do not have to go to WSPTA leadership for charter school lobbying | Seattle Education

Your PTA dues do not have to go to WSPTA leadership for charter school lobbying | Seattle Education:

Your PTA dues do not have to go to WSPTA leadership for charter school lobbying

The teachers at Ballard High School issued this resolution regarding the Washington State PTA’s plank on charter schools:

Whereas the Washington State Parent Teacher Student Association leadership has turned to actively promoting charter schools, despite their own survey of their membership that found a majority opposed to charters, and

Whereas the SEA has passed resolutions opposing charter schools, and

Whereas teachers are vastly underrepresented and now misrepresented in the PTSA, and