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While teachers in school districts across Washington were staging one-day walkouts to demonstrate their frustration with the level of state funding for education, La Conner educators took a different path.

Instead of giving kids a day off and disrupting family schedules, the La Conner teachers took their message directly to the legislators, who might be able to do something about their concerns.

Shortly after school was out on Friday afternoon, teachers and a scattering of students and community members gathered in the high school library, where State Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, Dave Ha...