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| Crisis in state's funding of higher education puts our future at risk | KUDOS to the University of Washington for 150 years as a provider of educational excellence and access to our state's best and brightest. |
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| REVENUE FORECAST DUE: Agencies contemplate potential 10 percent loss | Gov. Chris Gregoire’s call to plan budget cuts of up to 10 percent sounded draconian a month ago. But they may become reality – as the governor and others now fear Thursday’s revenue forecast will erase $1 billion to $2 billion more from state coffers. |
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| Gov. Gregoire: I can't make more cuts without Legislature | Everyone expects next week's quarterly forecast of state revenue to be bad. Gov. Chris Gregoire says she is girding for a drop in revenue as deep as $1.5 billion — and some are predicting even worse numbers. Gregoire has asked agencies to identify $1.7 billion in cuts, or 10 percent of… |
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| Shonda Shipman to take new job with Whatcom County | |||
| State agencies told to prepare for up to $1.7 billion in cuts | The continued economic slump brought more bad news for state government this morning, as Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered agencies to prepare for another round of budget cuts next year of up to 10 percent, or $1.7 billion. |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø redefines itself in light of state cuts | This past spring's proposed state budget cuts to higher education threatened to be so draconian that at one point, Western Washington University considered eliminating two of its eight colleges. |
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| UC tuition hits $12,192 - a 9.6 percent increase | University of California regents voted Thursday to raise tuition by 9.6 percent - on top of an 8 percent increase already approved for this fall - over the objections of students who said they'll drown in debt. At the same meeting in San Francisco, the regents also gave large pay… |
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| CSU tuition now twice 2007 cost | California State University trustees voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 12 percent this fall over the objections of protesters who said middle-class and undocumented students will be priced out of a college education. It is the second increase in less than a year, making this year's… |
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| 2-year budget includes about 1,300 fewer state jobs | It appears state government will have about 1,316 fewer full-time-equivalent jobs on the books, on average, in 2011-13 than in the current budget cycle. |
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| Education cuts undo years of work, Gregoire laments | A dejected Gov. Chris Gregoire gave final approval Wednesday to a new state spending plan, bemoaning in particular the sweeping cuts it makes to one of her prized issues: education. Gregoire said the spending reductions — totaling $4.5 billion over the next two years — were necessary at a… |