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| How Much Will You be Forking over for Your Education? | Trouble is brewing in tuition town, and, with the proposed budgets of this year, it seems clear students drew the short straw. "Of course I'm pissed. But I'm going to have to get loans and it's going to cost money no matter what," said Green River student Brian鈥 |
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| Transfer Trouble up Ahead | For in-state students looking to transfer in the near future, options have recently become more limited. In a move that they hope will help them weather upcoming cuts, two state universities have opted to increase the number of out-of-state and international students and, consequently,鈥 |
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| 3-year bachelor's degrees make sense as tuitions increase | It's no secret that state colleges and universities are going to get hammered in the final 2011-13 state budget being negotiated by the state House and Senate budget leaders. |
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| Legislature starts special session to finish state budget | Lawmakers were back in Olympia on Tuesday to resume work on closing a $5.1 billion shortfall in the next two-year budget. |
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| Students pay price as society forgets higher-education's value | As the Washington Legislature comes to a close on this session, there are new narratives and enduring myths about funding for our state's colleges and universities. Perhaps the most ubiquitous charge is that students should pay more for college - and its corollary that earlier鈥 |
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| Budgets, workers comp focus of WA special session | With lawmakers knowing they'd be back after a weekend-long interim, Friday's ending to the regular legislative session was anti-climactic, to put it nicely. Usually, the gavels in the House and Senate are struck at the same time to signal the end. This year, the House went ahead of the鈥 |
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| Gregoire: Special session to begin Tuesday | Gov. Chris Gregoire said Friday she'll call lawmakers back into special session on Tuesday to try to finish what they couldn't in their regularly allotted time - balancing a Washington budget that is more than $5 billion in deficit. "There is more work to be done, we are鈥 |
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| House, Senate leaders have different preferences for special session timing | Lawmakers are set to end their regular session Friday, two days short of the 105 days allowed 鈥 but with hope to finally bridge a $5.3 billion budget gap during a special session. 鈥淚 believe it can be done in two weeks,鈥 Senate Ways and Means chairman Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said Thursday鈥 |
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| Connelly: State approach to higher ed just not that smart | Gov. Chris Gregoire talked last week to Seattle Pacific University's annual business breakfast. She told a bootstraps story, of growing up in a single-parent household with a waitress mother who urged her to attend the UW and was "overwhelmed" seeing her daughter graduate from law鈥 |
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| Washington Legislature must not raid the capital budget to solve budget crisis | WASHINGTON state's budget crisis has everyone scrambling to eliminate government waste, find savings and possibly, end entire state programs. Despite all the bleak days in Olympia, there is one ray of hope still left coming from the capitol dome 鈥 Washington's capital investment plan.鈥 |