The Washington State Coalition for International Education serves as a clearinghouse for information about legislative action related to the Coalition's goals:
- The integration of international perspectives into the P-20 curricula.
- The expansion of world language education, with an emphasis on early childhood education and improving second language proficiency outcomes.
- The encouragement of all forms of international exchanges.
* Note: The development of cross-cultural skills and competence is an expectation that is subsumed within all three goals.
To review past years' advocacy information,
visit the
Advocacy Archive.
College Readiness in the Arts, Social Studies, and World Languages
The Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) published a policy brief relating to college readiness in the arts, social studies, and world languages in December, 2006. You can download a copy at:
http://www.hecb.wa.gov/boardmtgs/documents/
TAB07BCollegeReadinessPolicyBrief12-06ps.pdf (PDF)
Tools for Advocacy
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Washington State Legislators
http://www1.leg.wa.gov/legislature
This page helps you locate your state representatives and senator and
link to their web pages and email contact forms.
Contact Washington State Senators
This page allows you to link directly to the web forms
for sending messages to Senator Cantwell and Senator Murray.
Write Your Representative
This service will assist you by identifying your
Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives and providing
contact information.
Making the Public Case for International Education
PPT
(Powerpoint 1.3 MB, opens in new window)
This presentation reports cutting edge findings from
FrameWorks Institute's
recent survey and focus group research on how Americans view
international education. This work was conducted for Asia Society in
partnership with the American Forum for Global Education and supported
by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
U.S. Global Leadership
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for your elected officials.