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Tag Archives: School Funding

Voters say Legislature has a responsibility to act to prevent school closures, staff layoffs

Excerpt: 55% of 874 voters interviewed from March 7th-8th, 2023 said they agreed that Washington's public schools are underfunded and we need to raise state revenue to fully fund them, while 35% disagreed and 10% were not sure. 59% of those surveyed subsequently said they agreed that the Legislature has an obligation to respond to the fiscal crises districts are facing by substantially increasing school funding.
Published at:9:30 AM on Monday, April 3rd, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Policy Topics
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64% of Washington voters want legislators to fund universal, no-cost school meals for kids

Excerpt: 64% of 874 likely 2024 voters interviewed March 7th and 8th by Public Policy Polling for NPI said they strongly or somewhat supported universal no-cost school meals, while a total 33% said they were strongly or somewhat opposed.
Published at:3:30 PM on Monday, March 27th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Healthcare, Policy Topics
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Gem State win: School privatization schemes fail in Idaho’s Republican-run Legislature

Excerpt: A right wing effort to authorize the diversion of public tax dollars into privately run schools has collapsed in the Republican-dominated Idaho State Legislature, in a significant victory for public education and progressive organizations working to protect and strengthen the commons of the Gem State.
Published at:6:22 PM on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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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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Washingtonians want state legislators to make big investments in K‑12 public schools

Excerpt: More than three-fifths of voters in Washington State surveyed in mid-February 2022 support adding at least $2 billion more to the state's education budget to help K-12 public schools address needs stemming from the pandemic.
Published at:2:52 PM on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Washington State Senate unanimously passes much needed school seismic safety grant bill

Excerpt: All forty-nine Washington State senators have voted to pass a bill that would establish a grant program to upgrade seismically vulnerable school buildings in Washington State, providing sorely needed funds to ensure our kids have safe facilities to learn in.
Published at:8:07 PM on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, National Defense, Policy Topics
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School seismic safety bill passes out of Senate Ways & Means with bonding plan removed

Excerpt: The purpose of the legislation is to protect schoolchildren, faculty, volunteers, and community members from geologic hazards by modernizing decrepit, dangerous old school buildings that are vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis, and lahars.
Published at:7:38 PM on Friday, February 4th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Most Washington voters think upgrading our seismically vulnerable school buildings is a state responsibility, NPI poll finds

Excerpt: The finding, unveiled by NPI at a public hearing in the Senate Ways & Means Committee, affirms that voters see the Legislature as principally responsible for upholding the state's paramount duty to "make ample provision" for the education of all of the state's children, as the Framers of the Constitution intended when they wrote Washington's plan of government.
Published at:6:00 PM on Monday, January 31st, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Big news! Meaningful school seismic safety bills have been introduced in the Legislature

Excerpt: The bills (HB 2095 and SB 5933) would create a school seismic safety grant program, backed by general obligation bonds that would need to be voter-approved in a special statewide vote to be held in November of 2022.
Published at:11:14 PM on Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Education, National Defense, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Joe Biden’s primetime address adeptly sought to relink U.S. to the idea of E Pluribus Unum

Excerpt: America's forty-sixth president is commendably seeking to restore faith in government, showing that the people of the United States can enable each other to realize their hopes and dreams.
Published at:10:48 PM on Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
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State House of Representatives adopts conference report on capital gains tax bill

Excerpt: By a vote of fifty two to forty-four, the House of Representatives voted to adopt a final version of the bill (ESSB 5096) that was negotiated by a conference committee consisting of three state representatives and three state senators.
Published at:8:43 PM on Saturday, April 24th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The Pandemic is Personal: NPI’s Bobby Aiyer on graduating high school during COVID-19

Excerpt: NPI's Transit Advocate writes about what it's like to be a senior during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic, which unexpectedly ended the Class of 2020's in-person learning.
Published at:4:30 PM on Saturday, May 30th, 2020
Written by:Bobby Aiyer
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Documentary Review: “Race to Nowhere” may be ten years old, but it has aged well

Excerpt: Vicki Abeles created this documentary film to bring attention to some of the problems with the American education system.
Published at:6:30 PM on Sunday, January 19th, 2020
Written by:Theresa Curry Almuti
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Washington State Legislature passes clean levy flexibility bill to help school districts

Excerpt: It was a close call, but the House and Senate managed to agree on legislation to give school districts back some of the levy authority taken away in the 2017 McCleary deal.
Published at:11:12 PM on Sunday, April 28th, 2019
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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