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Parents and instructors urge board to restore funding for parent-education programs
Summary
Multiple parents, instructors and program leaders told the State Board that a new funding allocation model will effectively eliminate longstanding parent-education and cooperative preschool programs, urging a delay or restoration of prior allocations; board staff said they are working with colleges to identify solutions.
Dozens of parents, current students and instructors testified to the State Board that recent changes to the system’s funding allocation model put parent-education programs at risk and urged the board to restore the prior allocation or delay implementation to allow time for sustainable funding solutions.
Ashley Farina, who said she is a parent-education student, told the board that parent-education programs ‘‘quietly train many of Washington’s future educators, paraeducators, and community leaders’’ and provide early-childhood supports at far lower cost than alternatives. Annika Sambrennan, identifying herself with Bellevue College’s…
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