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Tag Archives: Facilities & Class Size

Washington State Supreme Court rebuffs Wahkiakum School District’s school construction funding constitutional challenge

Excerpt: The highest court in the Evergreen State has unanimously ruled against a rural Washington school district that brought a constitutional challenge over the state's longtime K-12 facilities funding regime, finding that the state's paramount duty does not extend to school capital construction costs.
Published at:12:30 PM on Friday, September 8th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Litigation, Policy Topics
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VICTORY! School seismic safety grant bill clears state House; heads to Governor Inslee

Excerpt: Senate Bill 5933, one of NPI's top legislative priorities for 2022, received a unanimous vote of support in the House of Representatives on March 3rd, 2022, a few weeks after getting a unanimous vote in the Washington State Senate.
Published at:4:31 PM on Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Policy Topics
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COVID-19 Update: Districts accelerate their planning for the 2020–2021 school year

Excerpt: A return to in-person classroom learning is being contemplated by school administrators across the region, but students and faculty will need to observe physical distancing protocols.
Published at:9:30 PM on Sunday, June 14th, 2020
Written by:Rich Erwin
Categories:Education, Healthcare, Policy Topics
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Senate Republicans kill effort to allow future school bonds to pass with a simple majority

Excerpt: A constitutional amendment to allow school bonds to pass by majority vote has died in the Washington State Senate at the hands of the Republicans.
Published at:9:34 PM on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Elections, Policy Topics
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LIVE from Bellevue: Governor Inslee unveils plan for investing in Washington’s schools

Excerpt: Good evening from New­port High School in Belle­vue, Wash­ing­ton. I’m here with sev­er­al dozen oth­er activists, reporters, and cit­i­zens to par­tic­i­pate in a town hall on edu­ca­tion with Gov­er­nor Jay Inslee and his staff. The gov­er­nor is using the event to unveil his plan to strength­en Wash­ing­ton’s schools, which his office is call­ing the most […]
Published at:7:08 PM on Monday, December 15th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Policy Topics
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Washington State Senate revolts against teaching to the test in key vote

Excerpt: Ever since Rod­ney Tom and Tim Shel­don facil­i­tat­ed the coup that gave Repub­li­cans con­trol of the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate, true bipar­ti­san­ship in that body has been a rar­i­ty. Tom’s dis­ci­plined right-wing cau­cus have bat­tled Sen­ate Democ­rats over every­thing from repro­duc­tive rights to trans­porta­tion choic­es to the state’s con­sti­tu­tion­al oblig­a­tion to ful­ly fund our pub­lic schools. […]
Published at:5:20 PM on Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Written by:Robert Cruickshank
Categories:Education, Legislative Advocacy
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Seattle Public Schools to get a chance for a fresh start with Enfield’s departure

Excerpt: Inter­im Seat­tle Pub­lic Schools Super­in­ten­dent Susan Enfield, who took over man­age­ment of the state’s largest school dis­trict after the board oust­ed Mon­i­ca Good­loe-John­son back in the spring, announced today that she will “nei­ther seek nor accept” the per­ma­nent posi­tion of super­in­ten­dent, which means she will depart­ing the dis­trict mid­way through 2012 when her cur­rent con­tract […]
Published at:4:25 PM on Friday, December 16th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Policy Topics
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