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Daily Archives: February 27th, 2015

Washington’s Senate Republicans pass bill transferring education funding to highways

Excerpt: Prov­ing once again that their Fund edu­ca­tion first rhetoric is noth­ing but a false front, Repub­li­cans today pushed a bill through the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate that trans­fers sales tax rev­enue col­lect­ed on trans­porta­tion projects out of the state’s gen­er­al fund and into its high­way fund. Since the gen­er­al fund prin­ci­pal­ly pays for our schools and […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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