Regional News

March 3, 1999

Teachers union is fined
$15,000 in disclosure case


FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Olympia -  An Olympia judge fined the Washington Education Association $15,000 yesterday for failing to disclose the union's political plan for the 1996 elections as part of a lawsuit, officials said.


The Evergreen Freedom Foundation first sought the political report in November 1997 as part of its lawsuit seeking to declare the WEA a political action committee...