budget
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| Senate passes bill to cut tuition at state universities | The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday to cut tuition at the state's public universities and community colleges. Senate Bill 5954, which passed on a 37-12 bipartisan vote, would link tuition at state schools to a percentage of the average wage for Washington workers. It… |
2015-03-12 | |
| Inside Olympia | We talk with outspoken Western WA University President Bruce Shepard about the state of higher education in Washington. Plus, State Treasurer Jim McIntire shares his thoughts on fiscal responsibility in state budgeting. |
2015-03-09 | |
| Update from Olympia: The case for Carver | 2015-03-06 | ||
| Students march for lower tuition | 2015-03-04 | ||
| Gov. Inslee visits students and befriends a spider | Western welcomed Governor Jay Inslee on Monday, March 2, with a tarantula, a stroll through campus and a variety of student meetings focused on the environment and tuition. Inslee touched on a subject that folks at Western have been wondering about for quite some time: the renovations to Carver… |
2015-03-03 | |
| Gov. Inslee visits WWU campus | 2015-03-03 | ||
| Governor talks tuition, college funding during WWU visit | Following a visit to Western Washington University on Monday, March 2, Gov. Jay Inslee said finding money to help state colleges operate is “going to take more work.” |
2015-03-03 | |
| Shepard: WWU can’t keep up high marks for quality if state continues to cut funding | Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard said the school won’t be able to continue delivering high quality education if the state continues to cut funding, despite a ranking last month that said Western was one of the top regional universities at doing so. A ranking from U.S… |
2015-02-26 | |
| Higher ed is getting a smaller slice of the budget pie. Why? | Earlier this month, after University of Washington President Michael Young accepted a job as head of Texas A&M University, we compared the amount of money Washington invests in higher education to the amount invested in public universities in the Lone Star State. Among other things,… |
2015-02-26 | |
| New forecast shows slight uptick in state revenues | Washington lawmakers have a little more money available to them as they work on crafting a new two-year budget for the state, according to an updated forecast released Friday. The newest report from the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council shows that revenue collection projections… |
2015-02-23 |