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Getting Smarter About Indian Education: Who Has The Power? | A new study has put a spotlight on what organizations, universities and people influence American Indian/Alaska Native education the most. |
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President Shepard sends message to campus regarding new budget | |||
Interest rates on student loans set to double next week | U.S. senators headed home for a Fourth of July recess without passing a bill that would prevent interest rates from doubling on student loans next week, leading to a ramp-up of political finger-pointing. |
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$33.6B budget gets tentative OK; gives $1B boost to schools | One-hundred and fifty days of contentious budget negotiations — and the threat of a government shutdown — ended Thursday morning with a handshake. |
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Deal or no deal? Conflicting claims fly as state budget bickering persists | In a sign of just how dysfunctional the state Legislature has become, lawmakers Wednesday argued about whether they had completed a budget deal — or not. |
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State Legislature nearing a deal, at least on education | State lawmakers are said to be in general agreement about the way forward for the state’s higher education system. When it comes to Olympia, its never real until the votes are counted but this Seattle Times story foreshadows a possible budget deal. Naturally some lawmakers are quoted as saying… |
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Keeping Washington's aerospace edge through state grants | Washington state's Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation or JCATI has invested more than $1.36 million in some 18 aerospace research projects at the University of Washington, Washington State University and Western Washington University. |
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Wash. budget talks now focused on smaller details | Negotiators in Olympia have agreed to the large components of a new state budget and are now working through the smaller details. A spokeswoman for Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday there have been no setbacks in the talks and that lawmakers are close to agreement on a final deal. Inslee had… |
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Online Classes Fuel a Campus Debate | The announcement last month that Coursera, which offers free college classes online, had signed agreements with state universities enrolling more than a million students made it plain that such courses, virtually unheard-of two years ago, are now part of the higher education mainstream. … |
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News from Olympia: None | June 23rd seemed like a perfectly good time to book a wedding in the Capitol Rotunda. |