Edmonds College Federation of Teachers

Fully Funded COLAs

Thanks to all of the faculty, both at our college and across the state, who came to Olympia on February 20 and to rallies on April 11 to ask the state to fully fund our Cost of Living Adjustments.

As a result, we will see COLAs of 8.9% in 2023-24 and 5.87% in 2024-25!

In defense of public education

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.