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Gov. Inslee and Sec. Wyman
Student Voter registration challenge 2018

Student Voter registration challenge 2018

To encourage as many young adults as possible to make their voices heard in the 2018 General Election, Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Gov. Jay Inslee have launched a special Student Voter Registration Challenge to sign up Washington’s college students as new voters. As Gov. Inslee’s office describes here, the Student Voter Registration Challenge is a competition open to students at all 40 of Washington’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges. Student teams must register by Aug. 1 to…

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NASA comes to Washington libraries

NASA comes to Washington libraries

Through a program called “NASA at My Library” facilitated through STARnet, NASA is reaching out to underserved populations across the US via the libraries that serve them. The goal is to enrich lifelong learning with NASA themed activities based on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) initiatives. To date, 78 libraries are implementing this project, including Bothell and Anacortes here in Washington. But for NASA’s big-picture goal, that’s not enough. The next phase is to utilize the resources and know-how…

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SecState partnering with Karshner Center

SecState partnering with Karshner Center

Secretary Wyman and crew this week celebrated a new partnership with Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts. Wyman and her Legacy Washington team traveled to the newly renovated Karshner Center in Puyallup, meeting with Puyallup School Superintendent Tim Yeomans and top officials of the district and the Center that operates one of America’s few district-owned teaching museums. The stunning museum, with longhouse-style great hall, classroom, gallery and natural history and performing arts spaces, is housed in a repurposed…

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Inslee budget: $1.4b in new revenue, mostly for K-12

Inslee budget: $1.4b in new revenue, mostly for K-12

The Battle of the Budgets has begun. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat in the third month of his tenure, unveiled his $34.4 billion budget blueprint in a lengthy televised news conference at the Capitol on Thursday. Headline: He would generate about $1.4 billion in new revenue by extending expiring taxes and by closing or reducing a variety of tax exemptions.  The new money would mostly go for education, a $1.2 billion down-payment on the state addressing a state Supreme Court…

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Gregoire proposes deep budget cuts

Gregoire proposes deep budget cuts

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, responding to a massive budget gap of $4.6 billion and public sentiment against tax hikes, is proposing a $32 billion two-year state budget that slashes virtually every segment of state spending. The governor recommended eliminating some of her favorite programs, including health coverage for the working poor, tax support of state parks, Disability Lifeline grants, Children’s Health Program, class-size reduction in K-4, and more.  She proposed shuttering the history museums in Tacoma and Spokane and freezing…

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Judge says state isn’t properly funding K-12

Judge says state isn’t properly funding K-12

In a bombshell ruling that comes as Olympia deals with a deep budget gap, King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick on Thursday held that Washington state is failing its constitutional mandate to adequately finance basic education for the state’s one million public school students. The long-awaited decision came in a lawsuit brought by a group of school districts, parents, teachers and community leaders who asserted that the state relies too much on local special property tax levies to support…

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Washington ranks high on `human development’ scale

Washington ranks high on `human development’ scale

A newly released Human Development Index puts Washington state among the highest ranked states and countries when it comes to literacy, education, life expectancy, per capita GDP and the promise of good jobs, health care and good schools. The USA ranks 15th among the nations and when Washington state is blended into the list, we rank very well, tied for 11th with Switzerland, France, Vermont and Alaska. The “Measure of America” report was published by Columbia University Press, the Social Science…

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