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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø fires admissions director of 21 years | Western Washington University has fired its longtime admissions director for what the university describes as a pattern of lack of professional judgment. |
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| Tax-increase fight likely to dominate session | Lawmakers on Monday will start looking at ways to hack $2 billion out of the state's $32.2 billion budget, but tax talk is likely to dominate much of the 30-day special session. |
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| Gov.'s budget plan riles up education stakeholders | Gov. Chris Gregoire tried to sell her idea for a temporary sales tax increase to replace budget cuts to a classroom of college students on Tuesday, but only about half of the students raised their hands to say they would vote for the plan to bring in an estimated $494 million through 2013.… |
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| Gov.'s budget plan riles up education stakeholders | The governor's plan for balancing the state budget in the face of a lingering recession has definitely got people talking, with education cuts among the most heat-generating ideas. |
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| Gregoire proposes half-cent sales-tax increase | Heading into her last year in office, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday proposed asking voters for the first state sales-tax increase in 28 years to help deal with a $2 billion budget shortfall. |
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| Cuts in funding – not salaries – are at heart of college budget problems | A recent op-ed by Sen. Mike Carrell rightly voiced concerns about rising costs facing students in Washington’s institutions of higher education. Unfortunately, Carrell diagnosed the problem as primarily driven by rising salaries and admini-strative costs. |
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| President Shepard sends update on governor's proposed budget | |||
| Union rejection to reopen contracts may trigger cuts | As part of her budget reduction package, Gov. Chris Gregoire asked state employee union leaders to reopen their collective bargaining contracts so the state could reduce the amount it spends on monthly health care premiums. The state currently allocates $850 monthly per employee. Reducing… |
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| Gregoire asks agencies to scrimp even more | Nothing is apparently too small to cut when faced with a $2 billion state budget shortfall. |
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| Gregoire laments education cuts during Bellingham visit | The best ways parents can support their child's education and their school is to pass the tax levies and volunteer as much as possible, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday, Nov. 3, while at Shuksan Middle School. |