Bellevue educators frustrated with the state Legislature’s stall in passing legislation providing better funding for teachers and schools are skipping today’s planned regional walkouts in favor of waiting until Wednesday to avoid impacting students.

The Bellevue Education Association states 1,350 district educators will be walking out of school 1 p.m. Wednesday, after students are let out for a half-day. The remainder of Wednesday was supposed to be for professional development in the district, which will be made up next week, said BEA president Mark Morrow.

“Our decision to walk out of our schools at the close of the student day reflects our frustration and anger with our state lawmakers, similar to many of our colleagues around the state,” Morrow wrote in a letter issued to the public announcing the protest. “We are angry that Washington continues to rank near the bottom of our nation in every important measure of school funding.”

The BEA states all proposals in the House and Senate to fund education in the Legislature’s special session fall short of adequately funding class sizes — meant to be made smaller by the passage of Initiative 1351 last year — school supplies and materials and professional wages and benefits for educators. The Legislature was also found in contempt in September by the state supreme court for not funding education to standards set by its 2012 McCleary decision.

Four protest sites were chosen for their proximity to schools and areas of heavy traffic, Morrow said. Educators and public supporters of school funding will demonstrate 1-5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Sites

• Bellevue Way, between Southeast Wolverine Way (Bellevue High School) and Northeast 10th.

• Factoria Boulevard, between Southeast 44th Street (Newport High School) and Southeast 38th Street. The protest area could include Coal Creek Parkway.

• 148th Avenue Northeast, between Bel-Red Road (Highland Middle School) and Northeast 24th Street.

• 142nd Place Southeast (overpass across I-90), between Southeast 32nd Street (Bellevue College) and Southeast 36th Street.