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| Senate earthquake should change state budget landscape | THE passage of a Republican budget out of the Washington State Senate with a majority of Democrats amounts to a political earthquake not seen in 25 years. Events like this do not happen without cause and cannot be talked into going away. |
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| Proposed state budget avoids tax increases, school cuts, but still looking for votes | Educators, prosecutors and providers of health and human services cheered Senate Democrats on Tuesday for their plan to rebalance the state budget without new cuts to schools, colleges and major social service programs. |
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| Democrats’ budget leaves schools alone | Senate Democratic leaders laid out a partisan budget plan Tuesday that spares public schools and universities from new spending cuts and, like the House Democrats’ offering last week, avoids a tax referendum. |
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| President Shepard sends updated message regarding proposed state budgets | |||
| Democrats advance budget plan with no sales-tax hike or school cuts | With bipartisanship out of political reach, Senate Democrats today unveiled a plan to rebalance the state budget without relying on higher taxes or carving any more dollars from public schools and colleges. |
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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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| Mounting student loans a 'debt bomb' waiting to explode | It’s a vicious cycle. Many families in this country cannot afford the skyrocketing cost of higher education without student loans. But many graduates cannot find a job and cannot pay off the loans. As a result, they wind up in a much deeper hole (as the interest and collection fees accrue) with… |
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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? |