WASA Legislative Report with Dan Steele

About WASA Legislative Report with Dan Steele

The Washington Association of School Administrators will be posting a short podcast from Marissa Rathbone on a regular basis throughout the 2026 Legislative Session. This podcast will focus on key legislative issues in the state of Washington to keep WASA members informed of hot topics and emerging conversations in Olympia. More info can be found on our website at https://wasa-oly.org.

Publisher

Marissa Rathbone

Category

government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jan 2019

Latest episode

13 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 95 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Week 9 Update--3/13/26

   Marissa Rathbone, Assistant Executive Director of Government Relations with WASA, reflects on the final TWIO episode, sharing her passion for public education.

2. 

   6 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Week 8 Update--3/6/26

   Host Marissa Rathbone discusses the critical opposite chamber cutoff deadline as the legislative session nears its end.

3. 

   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Week 7 Update--2/27/26

   This week, both the House and Senate passed their proposed operating budgets. We are now entering negotiations between the chambers. Both proposals continue operating within an ongoing imbalance between spending and revenue. That gap does not resolve on its own.

Inside a recent episode

Week 9 Update--3/13/26

Published 13 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But I wanted to just give you a quick overview what we know now about how things ended and what that means for K -12. First, the budget. A budget passed that impacted K -12 in a number of ways, as it relates to local effort assistance. The budget reduces LEA in this next year by 25 million. So to be clear, this is a reduction from the commitment that was made last year alongside the levy lid lift increase in order to better equalize funding for property poor districts that could not raise levies to the same level as their more property wealthy neighbors. So this year, 2027, instead of getting an additional 250 per pupil, that increase is reduced to 150 in 2027. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

19

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81