Contact: Marsha Richards, Communications Director (360) 956-3482 or mrichards@effwa.org WEA orders teachers and their representatives to be quiet, or else . . . After an annual arbitration hearing last week, the Washington Education Association (WEA) drafted a retroactive “gag order” for staff of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) and several other individuals. The order, signed by attorneys from the WEA and an American Arbitration Association arbitrator, attempts to prohibit teachers and their representatives from ever talking about what took place at the union’s hearing. “The WEA cannot intimidate us or the teachers we represent into being quiet,” said Bob Williams,...