SYPP ran a two-year campaign against the WASL graduation requirement. The WASL is the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, a standardized test  law-makers want students to pass in order to graduate beginning June 2008.  A core of 25 youth organizers coordinated and lead this effort.

Over the course of two years,  they did some pretty cool things!

• We created a WASL Haunted High that showed why the WASL is detrimental to student futures and communities of color. About 300 people attended.
  
• We sent nearly 500 Christmas Cards to Governor Gregoire. The cards were petitions that read "All I Want for Christmas is to Graduate" and were signed by high school students.
• We crashed a meeting of the Student Learning Committee of the Seattle School Board to deliver over 400 Anti-WASL Valentines. The Valentines were Anti-WASL petitions signed by high school students.
  

• Youth organizers went to Olympia and lobbied their representatives!
• Were guests on two radio shows (KKWF 100.7 and KBCS 91.3)
  

• Held a student forum so youth could give their opinions and suggestions about the graduation requirement. Future Superintendent Randy Dorn attended.