Meridian Park Elementary PTSA

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Free haircuts, mini-manicures, and mini-facials at Evergreen Beauty College Back-to-School event August 19, 2026
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When AQI is 100 (orange), limit exercise and vigorous physical activity outdoors if you are under age 18, age 65+, pregnant, have heart or lung conditions like asthma or even a cold. This includes physical labor, running, biking, and sports. Check the air quality index (AQI) frequently using AirNow.gov or weather apps--smoke conditions change quickly!

Schools, sports teams, and other organizations serving children should move indoors when smoke levels are “unhealthy for sensitive groups” or worse (101+ AQI). More kingcounty.gov/wildfiresmoke

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✅ VOTE ✅

Ballots for the August 4 primary are in your hands now!

Shoreline PTA Council sent a 12 question nonpartisan questionnaire to every candidate running in LD32 and LD1, asking how they would approach the funding gaps hitting our schools, including Shoreline's $8 million special education gap, $2.2 million operating cost gap, and $645,000 transportation shortfall.

Shoreline PTA Council does not endorse candidates. This summary is meant to help you compare responses on the issues that matter most to our schools. Full responses, unedited, are posted on the Council website:https://www.shorelinepta.org/uploads/1/4/2/5/142518511/2026_candidate_questionnaire_complete_responses__2_.pdf

A note on how to read this. Some candidates did not respond. We are naming them so you know a response is missing, not because we are making a judgment about why. Where only one candidate in a race responded, that does not mean the other candidates were asked to say less. It means we only received one answer to publish.

LD32 State Senate Candidates: Jesse Salomon (incumbent), Cindy Ryu, Ira McBee

Cindy Ryu and Jesse Salomon responded. Ira McBee did not.

Cindy Ryu: Top priorities include giving local school boards more flexibility on how they use state formula dollars, adding guardrails for AI and data privacy in schools, and expanding student access to surplus technology hardware. On the special education multiplier, she says an increase stalled while she served on House Appropriations and she will keep pushing for it from the Senate. On the millionaire's tax, she says the general fund is what currently supports education and that the tax needs a broader base over time to generate more stable revenue and reduce reliance on regressive taxes.

Jesse Salomon: Top priorities include passing his bill to have the state cover school utility and insurance costs, and keeping K-12 and housing as the Senate Democratic caucus’s top priorities.
On Special Education, he says the Senate raised the multiplier two years ago and believes it needs to go higher still.
On the millionaire’s tax, he co-sponsored the tax; says it will help over time but takes time to collect, so this session comes down to prioritizing K-12 within existing revenue.

LD32 House Position 1 (open seat) Candidates: Chris Bloomquist, Will Chen, Jenna Nand, Keith Scully, Danica Noble, Lisa Rezac

Jenna Nand did not respond. The other five did, listed here alphabetically by first name.

Chris Bloomquist: Top priority is fully funding public schools and rethinking a funding model based purely on per-student counts, which he calls broken since enrollment dropped after COVID. On operating costs, he'd look to clean energy investments like heat pumps and solar to lower utility bills, along with resource-sharing partnerships between higher and lower funded districts. On the millionaire's tax, he wants the revenue made more specific to school funding, including a share for the CCA.

Danica Noble: Her top priority is funding, plain and simple, pushing for more state dollars for MSOC, transportation, special education, and basic education so families and teachers stop covering the state's gaps. On special education, she says the gap persisting even after the funding cap was removed shows the multiplier itself is still wrong, and would address it in the 2027–29 budget. On the millionaire's tax, she points out that nothing in the law requires the revenue to go to schools, and wants dedicated funding clearly and securely tied to education instead.

Keith Scully: Top priority is full state funding for special education and MSOC at actual cost. He wants to move away from the levy system entirely for operating costs, saying it deepens inequality between districts that can pass levies and those that cannot. On the millionaire's tax, he says the revenue should go to two things only: fully funding education and reducing regressive taxes.

Lisa Rezac: Wants to first understand why student outcomes lag despite high overall spending, then fund special education, transportation, and operating costs at their real cost. On special education, she says eliminating the funding cap didn't fix the underlying formula, and she'd support reviewing and correcting the multiplier using documented cost data. On the millionaire's tax, she opposes building education funding around a new, unstable tax source before the legislature reprioritizes its existing spending.

Will Chen: Would prioritize closing the MSOC, special education, and mental health funding gaps in the state operating budget. On special education, he says eliminating the state's funding cap didn't fix the underlying multiplier, and supports reviewing and adjusting it based on the actual cost of services. On the millionaire's tax, he proposes splitting the revenue four ways: 25% to K-12 education, 25% to property tax relief for seniors and lower income households, 25% to the general fund, and 25% to small business tax restructuring.

LD32 House Position 2 Candidates: Lauren Davis (incumbent), Imraan Siddiqi

Both candidates responded.

Imraan Siddiqi: Top priorities include stronger anti-bullying and anti-doxing protections for students, protections for students from immigrant families, and closing gaps in early learning access. Would push to raise the state funded staffing ratios for nurses, counselors, and social workers under the Prototypical School Model. On the millionaire's tax, he wants revenue distributed more equitably, with a large share going to K-12, pointing to funding disparities based on zip code.

Lauren Davis: Top priorities include the special education multiplier, MSOC, and pupil transportation funding. On special education, she says the ongoing deficit is largely driven by the multiplier, and raising it must be a priority in the next budget cycle if realities allow. On the millionaire’s tax, she says she pushed for a K-12 carveout but was told the revenue needed to stay in the general fund to protect the measure from repeal; wants that reconsidered after the initiative.

LD1 House Position 1 Candidates: Davina Duerr (incumbent), Maggie Wang

Neither candidate responded.

LD1 House Position 2 Candidates: Shelley Kloba (incumbent), Jenne Alderks, Cliff Moon, Jeff Lyon

Only Jenne Alderks responded. Kloba, Moon, and Lyon did not.

Jenne Alderks: Top priority is protecting access to schoolwork for students in residential or inpatient behavioral health treatment, along with protecting school lunches and special education supports. On special education, she points to years of the state underestimating real need, drawing on her own experience raising three children on the autism spectrum and advocating in Olympia to close the funding gap. On the millionaire's tax, she says that if education is the state's paramount duty, that revenue should be prioritized to address chronic underfunding of schools.

Where you see a gap in this summary, it's because we didn't receive a response for that race or that candidate. We'll update the full document on the Council website if that changes before Election Day.

Questions about the questionnaire or the funding gaps mentioned here can go to [email protected].

It’s never too early to be thinking about school supplies! Support our Shoreline School district students with a great start to the 2026-2027 school year by contributing to this year’s Backpack Drive. You can help in three ways:

🎒Drop off new backpacks at the Shoreline Public Schools Foundation office at the Shoreline Center - 18560 1st Ave NE - There is a collection box
in the main lobby.

🎒Shop online: https://tinyurl.com/47v2mmff (link in bio)

🎒Donate to the Shoreline Public Schools Foundation at www.shorelinefoundation.org (link in bio)

The MP Community Pantry is a child forward pantry run by parents at Meridian Park Elementary

Our community pantry would love a donation of water, juice boxes, or otter pops (or similar) during this burst of heat!

Thank you for keeping our kids hydrated!

1900 N 175th St, Shoreline, WA 98133- Directly across from Meridian Park Campus

Shared from Shoreline PTA Council 6.12

Hopelink returns to Shoreline Community College this Tuesday, July 7 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM for another Mobile Market visit! All are welcome to come collect no-cost food items as needed. Open to students, staff, and the whole Shoreline community.

Hopelink's Mobile Market is on campus every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Next visits July 7, July 21, and Aug 4.