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| State budget problem: Without taxes, something has to go | More than one-quarter of the way into the legislative session, state lawmakers are still struggling with the main challenge they鈥檒l face this year: writing a budget that satisfies a state Supreme Court order to boost funding for basic education. Legislators generally don鈥檛 disagree about鈥 |
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| State at critical crossroads, Inslee tells split lawmakers | Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday used his State of the State address to double down on his sweeping budget proposals to spend more on education and transportation, and to tax carbon pollution and capital gains. |
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| 5 things to watch in Washington Legislature: Taxes, schools, transportation, pot, guns | The 105-day legislative session begins Monday with the expectation that it could be a tough few months for lawmakers who return to town under a contempt order by a state Supreme Court that has grown increasingly more impatient with their progress on fixing the way the state pays for basic鈥 |
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| Lawmakers debate whether new taxes are needed in Washington | Leaders of Washington state's Legislature are going to spend the next several months debating whether to raise taxes, or create new ones, in order to answer the Supreme Court's demand to put more money into public schools. The tax debate was prominent and somewhat heated on鈥 |
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| Guest: Higher education can鈥檛 afford another budget cut | I LOOK at Gov. Jay Inslee鈥檚 budget proposal through one lens: implications for higher education鈥檚 ability to serve Washington. While the budget represents real leadership, significant work must be done to shore up funding for higher education. |
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| Governor releases proposed budget | |||
| Inslee backs smaller class sizes for grades K-3, teacher raises | Gov. Jay Inslee rolled out highlights of his education budget Monday, saying he wants to reduce average class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, pay for all-day public kindergarten and reinstate cost-of-living raises for teachers that the voters approved years ago. |
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| Colleges offer to freeze tuition, but only if they get more state funding | Washington鈥檚 public four-year colleges and universities would agree to freeze tuition for another two years if the state Legislature increases college funding by 16 percent, the presidents of those institutions said Thursday. That 16 percent, which would total $198 million, would also鈥 |
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| Gov. Inslee鈥檚 budget office says $583 million of pay adjustments for state-paid workers are 鈥渇inancially feasible鈥 | Gov. Jay Inslee鈥檚 budget office on Friday certified that more than $583 million in labor contract agreements for 2015-17 are financially 鈥渇easible.鈥 That determination frees Inslee to include the contracts in his proposed two-year budget, which is due for public release during the week of鈥 |