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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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| Senate Republicans pass two-thirds rule on first day of session | Republicans in the state Senate opened the 2015 legislative session Monday by making it harder to pass taxes in the Legislature鈥檚 upper chamber, potentially presenting a challenge to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee鈥檚 idea to tax carbon pollution and capital gains. The Senate approved a rule鈥 |
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| Free college? We鈥檙e already doing it | Free college? That鈥檚 crazy talk. |
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| Do home-schoolers need government oversight? | The number of home-schooled children continues to rise in the country - now up to an estimated 2.2 million, including thousands in the Kansas City area. Public oversight of home schooling? Not so much, The Kansas City Star reports. |
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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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| Two Years of Free Community College | President Obama is going big with his higher education announcement in Tennessee on Friday. He wants to make the first two years of community college as free as high school. |
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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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| 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. |