Former Stand for Children activists reveal rightward drift of agenda

Refusal to re-balance taxes hinders schoolkids

It’s day 23 of a second special session in Olympia, since legislators couldn’t agree to a state budget before the end of the regular session. Now they have only 16 days left until the new two-year fiscal term. It will be hard to start that without a budget! The cause for delay is a disagreement […]

Student Debt Noise Brigade Makes Noise For Debt Crisis, this Wed. in Seattle

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: #MicCheckWallSt Organizer, Press Relations,  www.MicCheckWallSt.org. Seattle, Washington – August 8th, 2012  – A cacophonous uproar reverberating  from dozens of clanging pots and pans will fill the streets of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, to herald  the march of The Student Debt Noise Brigade. This Wednesday evening, students and supporters armed with […]

Full Funding for Higher Ed Required by our State Constitution

The claim has been made that the legislature had to cut billions of dollars from higher education funding because our Constitution prohibited them from making cuts from Basic Public School funding. There is a myth that has been promoted for years that our Constitution ONLY protects basic education funding and not higher education funding. However, […]