WACTE 2007 Legislative Update Podcasts
Podcast editions of most regular legislative updates for the Washington Association of colleges for Teacher Education are posted here.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Legislative Update #15 2007
Sorry, no podcast this week. We’ll go over the results of the session at the WACTE Conference in Cheney on Thursday. See you there.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Legislative Update #14 2007
14 weeks down, and one to go – the 2007 session of the 60th Washington legislature is in its final week. All bills had to have cleared both chambers of the legislature by close of business Friday.
[The list of bills still in play can be found at https://dlr.leg.wa.gov/user/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fbilltracking%2fdefault.aspx (both the user name and password are wacte07).]
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Legislative Update #13 2007
Legislation to change teacher preparation programs is poised for passage in the state House. That, and more, is included in this week’s update.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Legislative Update #12 2007
The number of blooms in the beds on the capitol campus continues to grow, but the field of legislation still in play continues to dwindle, and budgets are coming into focus with passage Saturday of budgets in the state Senate.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Legislative Update #11 2007
... for the week ending March 23, 2007
Both the House budget and the cherry blossoms emerged in Olympia this week.
The budget contains significant improvements for education, but many in the education community are saying it does not go far enough.
