January 11 , 2016 - Mary Strow
2016 Legislative Session Begins Today
The state legislature convenes today, Jan. 11. This year is a short session, 60 days. It's also a "supplemental" budget year, which means lawmakers make relatively minor changes to the larger two-year budget they approved last session. Budget-wise, as we noted in an earlier post on Gov. Inslee's proposed supplemental budget, one of the big […]
January 07 , 2016 - Mary Strow
Another charter-school bill is coming
*UPDATE* We've just received a copy of the bill – click here to read it. A bipartisan group of legislators is backing legislation that will allow Washington's public charter schools to stay open. The bill "makes a series of updates which include directing charter school funding to come from the state’s Opportunity Pathways Account, which contains […]
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