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| Senate Dems' budget plan avoids deeper cuts to education | Senate Democrats will propose a budget Tuesday that spares K-12 and higher education from additional cuts, Senate Ways and Means Chairman Ed Murray said Monday. |
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| Washington State Cannot Afford More Cuts to Higher Education | As Washington State’s public colleges and universities face a quiet crisis created by a massive state divestment in higher education over the last few years, our long-term economic future as a state is being put in serious jeopardy. This path of state disinvestment is compromising access,… |
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| Lawmakers need long-range strategy on improving education | House Democrats spared basic education funding from additional significant cuts in the budget they released last week, and maybe that’s all we can hope for at the tail end of the Great Recession. But let’s hold the applause. The budget still slices another $65 million out of higher… |
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| Stuff this idea into storage | If the state were to sell its art collection to help fund education, what would be next? Ask all legislators and higher education officials to pool their rare coins, gold chains and other jewelry to sell to GoldCo Unlimited, or some other liquidator? |
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| Bill would link funding to results for Washington's four universities | A bill sponsored by state Rep. Tim Probst, D-Vancouver would link funding for state universities to the results they produce. |
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| Revenue Eases Recession’s Budget Pain as U.S. Governors Gather | For the past four years, U.S. states struggled to close more than $500 billion of budget shortfalls caused by the recession, ushering in tax increases, spending cuts and clashes with public-employee unions. |
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| House proposal could lead to local tax hikes | Unless you’re a big bank or you use a machine to roll your cigarettes, state House Democrats’ budget doesn’t raise your taxes. Instead, their plan cuts payments to cities and counties and allows them to make up the money by raising your taxes. The plan unveiled Tuesday would take a… |
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| Just Fix It | Give four-year schools more flexibility; keep pushing public-school reform | THE state Legislature must not miss an important opportunity to fulfill last year's promise to give universities and colleges more flexibility and less micromanagement. |
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| House Dems: Cut employee healthcare, delay K-12 funds | The House Democratic budget is formally on the table: The $30.66 billion supplemental spending plan lops some $81.6 million in local government aid, delays $405 million in funding for K-12 public schools into the 20130-15 biennium, and makes roughly half the cuts to welfare programs that Gov.… |
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| Accounting gimmick is big part of state House budget moves | House Democrats on Tuesday proposed solving a deep hole in the state budget largely by pushing certain payments to public schools into the next budget cycle, and making more than $400 million in spending cuts. |