Mission:
To work collaboratively with key state governmental decision makers on issues related to the education of highly capable students, their families, and their schools.
Major Activities:
- Employ a lobbyist
- Educate key decision makers on issues
- Provide legislators with current information and seek their support for funding and programs
- Work with state agencies on highly capable issues
- Inform members about legislative issues
Why join?
The Coalition is YOUR voice in Olympia and is the only nonprofit gifted advocacy group in Washington which can hire a lobbyist. By becoming a member of the Coalition, you provide the necessary financial support. You can join the Washington Coalition for Gifted Education by filling out and mailing in your contribution, or you can donate to the Coalition using PayPal.
Seattle-area parents are organizing to save gifted education and we want to share with our counterparts across the state.
We plan to deliver this petition to Seattle-area legislators this week – if there are a lot of signatures from other parts of the state, we’ll deliver those by email, too.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/budgcuts/petition.html
We also plan to do some other organizing around the biennial budget and empower kids and parents to speak out, along with the Coalition.
SIGN TODAY!
When is Gifted Ed day for 2014?
February 28th, 2014. We hope to see you there!