ABC members and QUEST families – It is time to shape the Academic Booster Club’s leadership team for the 2009-2010 school year. Four Executive Board positions are up for election: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Please send your nominations to nominations@questabc.org before April 1st. The general membership will vote on these nominations during our [...]
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Former Puyallup School Board member and current 25th District Representative Bruce Dammeier is holding a town meeting today, Saturday March 14th, at the Puyallup Public Library. The meeting is scheduled between 4:00 and 5:00pm. Please join us to thank Representative Dammeier for his support of highly capable education.
Many parents have asked what they should include in a letter to their legislators. There were some suggestions made in an earlier entry, and some samples from the National Association for Gifted Children were attached. Here are two messages I sent today to my legislators. To Representative Dammeier and Representative Morrell I wrote: I was [...]
Received last night from the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education: Comments or questions can be sent to wagifted@earthlink.net or barbaragmaurer@yahoo.com. If you wish to have your name added to their mailing list, send a notice to wagifted@earthlink.net. After losing all the opening skirmishes, on Thursday, gifted advocates won a notable victory in the Legislature. Engrossed [...]
The most recent email from The Washington Coalition For Gifted Education indicates that critical decisions regarding funding for education are due at the end of THIS WEEK. Please, if you have not yet written your legislator, take the time to do so now. Links for contacting your legislators and Gov. Gregoire are listed at the [...]
