The month of March is winding down, but a number of important ABC events are just winding up. The ABC Read-A-Thon kicks off March 26th and runs through April 4th. The Read-A-Thon is our largest fundraiser of the year. Where ever your Spring Break may take you, we hope you’ll bring along plenty of reading [...]
The next few weeks are packed with important events for QUEST and PAGE families. Please take a minute to look at what’s coming up. More information about each of these events can be found on our website, www.questabc.org. February 9th – Puyallup School District Operations Levy ballots due. February 5th – Gifted Education Day in [...]
The Puyallup School District is currently soliciting student, parent, staff, and community feedback on budgeting priorities for the 2010 – 2011 school year. Highly Capable funding is a big part of this survey. It is extremely important that the families of highly capable students be heard from. This is what the District website says: The [...]
Received from the Northwest Gifted Child Association: GOVERNOR DELETES GIFTED EDUCATION FROM THE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET!! PARENTS MUST SPEAK UP!! It appears that the next legislative session will be one of great peril for highly capable programs. Under the Supplemental Budget proposed by the Governor on December 9th, funding for highly capable programs will be [...]
This message was received from the Washington Coalition For Gifted Education, our lobby for Highly Capable Education in Washington State. ABC is a member of the Coaltion. 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. This message contains [...]
There are a number of important events rapidly approaching that you need to know about, so we’re writing a special advocacy update to bring you up to speed. The Puyallup highly capable programs did very well in the face of last year’s financial challenges, but that doesn’t mean that we can be complacent. Discussions are underway [...]
