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| Snohomish woman arrested in assault on WSU professor | A female student at Washington State University was arrested Wednesday in connection with the beating of a professor near campus, and Pullman police said they had leads on three other suspects. |
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| House Democratic budget emphasizes education | The Democratic-controlled Washington House wants to raise an extra $1.34 billion by extending expiring taxes and closing tax exemptions. That would pay for $1.3 billon in court-mandated extra education spending in 2013-2015. |
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| Feds say that fired researcher falsified data, back UW鈥檚 probe | The federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issued its final decision Monday in the long-running misconduct case of Andrew Aprikyan, a University of Washington blood researcher fired in 2010. |
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| The next question: Special session? | The Legislature's constitutionally mandated final day of this year's 105-day session is April 28. But with a $1.2 billion budget disagreement between the GOP coalition in the Senate and the Democrats in the House, many legislators are wondering if a special session will be needed.鈥 |
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| Gov. Jay Inslee to replace half of the Washington Student Achievement Council | Gov. Jay Inslee startled many in education circles when he quietly moved to replace half of the Washington Student Achievement Council. What went wrong so quickly? Former U.S. Rep. Brian Baird of Vancouver seemed a capable chairman of the board filled with boldfaced names. Inslee is鈥 |
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| Increasing fees for international students will hurt UW | Here鈥檚 a wild and crazy thought: Before Senate Republicans baked potentially damaging ideas into the state鈥檚 higher education budget, maybe they should have talked to the people managing our universities and colleges. |
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| Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber signs tuition bill allowing in-state tuition for immigrant students | Gov. John Kitzhaber signed into law today a bill allowing in-state tuition for immigrant students without documents. |
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| Editorial: State Senate should have supported Dream Act | THE state Senate higher-education chairwoman has squandered a golden opportunity to help some of Washington鈥檚 most promising high-school graduates continue their education. |
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| State falls short in educating for high-tech jobs | The sure-fire pathway to economic recovery, we鈥檝e been told for years, is to create more jobs. When unemployment is low and people are bringing home family-wage paychecks, everyone鈥檚 financial boat rises with the tide. |
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| Innovation is too hard to find | 鈥淩elentlessly innovative,鈥 at the very least, is something we should try to be, says the gregarious president of Western Washington University Bruce Shepard. Innovative is what Washington鈥檚 public universities must be and what Western strives for. Try something new, fail if you must, then try鈥 |