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New Business Item

Title: Regarding Federal Forest Monies

Source: Ryan Grant, Medical Lake Education Association

Background: OSPI withholds basic education dollars equal to federal


forest money from school districts by lowering their apportionment by an
equal amount. Money intended for schools for the mitigation of the negative
impacts of federal and court actions should go to those schools.

Cost Implications: $18,000,000 to Washington State government

WEA Goal Objectives:


*Improve the quality of and access to public education for all students
*Forge partnerships with parents, business, other unions, and
community groups.

Recommended Actions

That WEA lobby to ban the deduction of basic education dollars in lieu of
Federal timber monies and to let these dollars flow through to the districts
they are allotted to; and

That WEA work in a two prong approach, one with our congressional
delegation and the other with the state legislature, to end the current practice
of school district general apportionment money being lowered by an amount
equal to the Federal Timber money received, thereby depriving some of our
neediest school districts of an available means of support.

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