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Lawmakers: Get radical about funding higher ed

There’s so much talk in Olympia right now about de-funding public colleges, it’s good to see some serious people figuring out how to fund them.

The governor’s higher education funding task force – a group of business and higher ed leaders that’s been wrestling with the issue since July –…

All state parties must invest to move higher education forward

WASHINGTON'S four-year public universities should be allowed to set their own tuition rates, but no one, least of all legislators, should think tuition increases can make up for budget cuts.

Recommendations by a state task force call for tuition-setting…

Task force: Private money could help pay for higher education

A task force charged with finding stable money to pay for higher education in Washington state has some ideas it wants the Legislature to consider.

At the top of its list announced Monday: Find someone other than state government to pay the bill.

The task force formed by Gov. Chris…

Higher ed task force has ideas for Wash. lawmakers

A task force charged with finding stable money to pay for higher education in Washington state has some ideas it wants the Legislature to consider.

At the top of its list announced Monday: Find someone other than state government to pay the bill.
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Budget office releases analysis of governor's latest budget recommendation
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Scientists In Solar Energy Research Receive Additional Funding

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), America's second-oldest foundation and the first wholly devoted to science, announced today that it has presented Scialog® Collaborative Innovation Awards of $100,000 to each of three groups of scientists to supplement the initial grant…

Governor agrees to pay 85 percent of state workers' health-care premiums

In a surprise move, Gov. Chris Gregoire has agreed the state will pay 85 percent of health-care premium costs for state workers in the next two-year budget.

The governor had previously pushed for the state to pay 74 percent of the premium and for state workers to…

Bruce Shepard appears on TVW to talk funding for higher education
House Democrats release their proposed state budget cuts

House Democrats released their list of proposed cuts on Thursday to deal with a projected $1.1 billion shortfall for the current state budget.

Their caucus web page says the list is preliminary, but notes that their proposal would not eliminate either the state…

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