Seattle Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators

⏰ Time to get ready to vote! Voting opens Tuesday, April 21 at 7pm.

Jannah's dog Dipper is posing with SCORE's Endorsement Guide postcard that arrived in the mail today.

🗳 SCORE's Endorsement Guide 🗳
SEA President: Ibijoke Idowu
SEA VP: Tymmony Keegan
Director of Center for Racial and Social Justice: Isaura Jiménez Guerra

SEA Board of Directors, High School Representatives:
David Corliss
Makena Gadient
Dan Shapiro
Stef Skiljan
Eli Zavatsky

SEA Board of Directors, Multi-grade Representatives:
Fabricio Calvet-Recktenwall
Sam Friedman
Connor Lee

SEA Board of Directors, Elementary Representatives:
Elena Cusack
Jenn Hogue
Jannah Horvath
Jake Miller
April Zhang

Paraprofessional Board President: Demetrice Wheeler
Paraprofessional Board VP: Alex Kramer

There are two days left of voting. Folks were out in front of the SEA Representative Assembly getting the word out.

Remind the SEA members that you know to vote and to vote for Jeff Paul!

Voting closes at 7pm on Thursday, May 15.

Ballots are dropping tomorrow (Thursday, May 8th) at 9am. It is time to vote Jeff Paul for SEA Vice President!

Check your personal email for a message from AAAElections to get voting information.

Vote for Jeff Paul!
- Proud q***r educator with 8 years of experience as a para in SPS

- Para Board member and AR for 6 years enforcing our contract to win FTE increases, reduced caseloads, and additional staffing

- Current BLT rep and Racial Equity Team co-chair for 2 years; founded GSAs at two schools (shout out Qu**rs and Peers!)

- MLK Labor delegate for 2 years and first year EPEC member

- Over 10 years of experience as a community organizer mobilizing broad, diverse coalitions to win major grassroots political campaigns

Visit JPforVP.com to learn more!

On March 14, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. received the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers and gave a speech in which he echoed the education funding crisis by saying that "the richest nation on earth has never allocated enough resources to build sufficient schools, to compensate adequately its teachers, and to surround them with the prestige our work justifies."

While tabling, we shared information about how educators, families, and community members can support a wealth tax to fund education as well as how to protect our students and families from immigration enforcement.

We marched from Garfield High School to Jimi Hendrix Park with the labor contingent.

Mark your 2025 calendars!
As you prepare for the next six months of the school year, here are predictable events that will be happening. However, there will be plenty other events as we fight for better working conditions for ourselves and learning conditions for our students.

Interested in being an SEA delegate at the WEA Representative Assembly and the NEA Representative Assembly?

As a delegate, you will to represent the union and organize with educators from across the state and nation.

NOMINATIONS
Open: Tues., Jan. 14 at 9am
Close: Tues., Jan. 28 at 7pm

VOTING
Open: Fri., Feb. 7 at 9am
Close: Fri., Feb. 21 at 7pm

Check your personal email for a message from SEA for more information.

In addition to SCORE and SEA activities, there are some awesome ways to engage:

On Saturday, January 4th, WA Ethnic Studies Now is hosting Advocacy in Community: Youth Agency in a World on Fire: bit.ly/WAESNWoF

On Monday, January 20th, it is Seattle's annual MLK Jr. workshops, rally, and march at Garfield High School.

On Saturday, January 25th, there is a national Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair: bit.ly/2025BLMcurriculumfair

Don't be demoralized, organize!

We hope to see you at the Public Schools Community Teach-in & Forum this Sunday, November 17 from 2-4pm at Franklin High School.

http://bit.ly/Nov17CommunityForum

Join us on Sunday, November 17 from 2-4pm at Franklin High School for a community teach-in and forum on how we can fight to fully fund our schools statewide!

WA State NAACP Youth Council

Vote NO on all four statewide initiatives by November 5th!
These initiatives aim to remove social and environmental protections that our legislature has passed, which is why voting NO is so important.

Seattle is not alone in being a school district in Washington that is facing a budget crisis. The crisis is a result of policy choices that does not fully and equitably fund our schools.

The capital gains tax only impacts 0.2% of Washingtonians, but the repeal of the tax would impact 100% of our youth. Vote NO on I-2109!