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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…
Volume 10, May 22, 2014 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) FIRST TUESDAYS – MAKE YOUR WEEDING EASIER 2) CE GRANTS FOR STARTING STRONG 3) WALE 2014 SESSION PROPOSALS 4) 2014 SUMMER READING LISTS AVAILABLE 5) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK ————————————————————————————————————— 1) FIRST TUESDAYS – MAKE YOUR WEEDING EASIER Weeding – whether it’s in your garden or in your library, it’s a chore. Find out how to make weeding in your library easier at the next…
The Washington Senate’s GOP-led majority coalition, backed by a handful of Democrats, rolled out a $33.3 billion, two-year state budget proposal Wednesday that holds the line on taxes, plows $1 billion in new money into education, cuts college tuition, and expands Medicaid coverage. The plan would also restore the 3 percent pay cut imposed on state workers in the last biennium. The proposal is the first legislative draft of the session, following on the heels of new Gov. Jay Inslee’s…
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…
Washington lawmakers and incoming Gov. Jay Inslee are arriving in Olympia for a grueling budget-year legislative session that begins at high noon on Monday. The 63rd Legislature and the newly elected governor face a big budget shortfall — perhaps $2 billion, counting pay raises, rising cost of services for a growing and graying population and a state Supreme Court order to invest more in the state’s public schools. Democrat Inslee and a number of legislators say they will try to…
Majority Senate Democrats have unveiled a proposed budget that deals with a billion-dollar budget gap without cutting K-12 or higher education, or relying on a voter-approved sales tax hike. Their plan involves deferring a school support payment into the next biennium, saving $330 million; cutting spending by $356 million; adopting $31 million in new revenue; shifting $71 million in solid waste tax revenue to the General Fund from the construction budget; and capturing about $150 million in agency savings and…
That little soupçon of alphabet soup is supposed to indicate the following: The Washington State Library (WSL), a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, announces the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) project. The RFP seeks vendors to provide databases in one of three categories: A database package of primarily full text magazine and journal articles covering a wide variety of subject areas and topics providing a minimum of 2500…
Volume 6, November 24, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT FACT SHEETS RELEASED 2) MISSING NEWSPAPER ISSUES 3) STEPHEN ABRAMS – LIBRARIES AT THE TIPPING POINT 4) LAURA BUSH GRANT PROVIDES BOOKS FOR K-12 LIBRARIES 5) GETTING READY IN INDIAN COUNTRY 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
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…