Kate Simkowiak

Advocacy

Budget information, legislative activities, WAETAG conferences, etc.

Gifted Education Day – February 5th

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YOU ARE INVITED
Please plan now to attend Gifted Education Day in Olympia
We are all in this together!  CPA Encourages everyone to attend!

DATE:  Friday, February 5th, 2010
TIME:    8:00 AM 7:30 a.m. (meet at 7:15) ~leave Terrace Park School by carpool and/or caravan~
Estimate 3:00 PM ~leave Olympia~  (optional, meet for pizza dinner)
PLACE:  State Capitol Building in Olympia, WA.
WHO:  Parent(s) and Child(ren) in the Challenge Program

Please click the “read more” link below for more information on the event and to download the Gifted Education Day RSVP Form.

CPC Update & Volunteer Request

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CPC Update: 1/4/10

1. SCHOOL LEVY-Week of Jan 19th: Ballots mailed to voters
Jan 26th: Phone bank for Terrace Park volunteers
VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED
We have 5 volunteers.  7 more are needed.
Contact Michelle Toshima (mtoshima@verizon.net) if interested.

2. FISCAL FORECAST
2009-2010 school year: cut $11.5 million from budget
2010-2011 school year: projected cuts of $6.2 million from budget
“We’ve trimmed all the fat, now we’re down to the meat.”
District is looking at revenue generating proposals: advertising; tuition based programs
Call or write your legislators: this is extremely important!

3. NEW DISTRICT AND SCHOOL WEBSITES

4. BOUNDARIES: ALDERWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

NAGC Webinars on Wednesdays starts tomorrow

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Bulletproofing Gifted Kids: Seven Strategies that Every Teacher, Counselor, and Parent Needs to Know is the title of the first NAGC  Webinar of 2010:  What are critical non-intellective factors that profoundly impact optimal development and success?  Seven essential themes guide parents, counselors, and teachers in delivering powerful differentiated school and home support. The difference makers are:

Phone Bank Volunteers Needed on Vital Levy Election–January 26th

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Parent volunteers are needed to phone local voters who have voted for levy measures in the past to remind them to send in their completed ballots. The Levy Re-authorization is the only item on this February’s ballot, and voter response is expected to be low. While support of school levies is always important, in light of both recent and projected cuts in state funding for our schools, passage of this levy measure is critical.

Volunteers are needed at the phone bank in the Edmonds Education Association Office, 19707 64th Avenue West, Lynnwood on January 26th between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Please contact Michelle Toshima for more details or to sign-up for a time slot on the phones.

Gifted Education funding slashed from Governor’s Supplemental Budget

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In her initial Supplemental Budget for 2010-2011, Governor Gregoire proposes to suspend  $7.4 million of 2010-11 highly capable funding.*

We need to make sure the Governor knows that cutting highly capable funding is not acceptable. Please send her that message through her web site http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/default.asp or the hot line 1.800.562.6000. In a situation like this, it is the sheer number of messages, not the weight of your arguments, that will count.

Advocacy – Keeping Our Kids Safe from Local Gangs

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Gang Awareness and Education – Keeping Our Kids Safe from Local Gangs

– A Problem that Demands Your Attention!

In partnership with the Edmonds School District, City of Lynnwood and
Edmonds Community College, we’d like to invite you to an important
Gang Awareness Community Meeting on December 8th at 6:30pm at the
Meadowdale High School.

As a community, we are experiencing the beginning stages of
significantly increased gang activity in Snohomish County. Awareness
and education is an important first step to keeping our kids and
communities safe. Our middle school students are particularly
vulnerable as recruitment often starts at that age.

WAETAG Conference Volunteers Needed

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WAETAG (Washington Association for Educators of the Talented and Gifted) will be holding its annual conference on October 23rd and 24th at the Lynnwood Embassy Suites. Traditionally, Challenge parents volunteer to help staff the event by working the check-in tables and providing whatever assistance the presenters or participants might need during the course of the conference.Volunteers are needed Friday the 23rd from about 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (two shifts available) and Saturday the 24th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (three shifts available). We are looking for four to six volunteers for each shift.

If your are able to donate some of your time, please contact Megan Hicks.