Education cuts sabotage state's future
Washington is rapidly stripping support from its four-year public colleges and putting more cost burdens on students, at a time when brains trained at those colleges are needed to power the Evergreen State out of the Great Recession.
Students are paying more for less. But the hidden cost may be borne by the people of Washington.
What the state is doing and has done, summed up in words from University of Washington senior Andrew Lewis, is to deny students the chance "to pursue the American Dream."