Inslee signs budgets
OLYMPIA – With some 20 minutes to spare before a partial shutdown, Gov. Jay Inslee signed budgets Tuesday night to keep state government operating for the next two years.
Spin Control archive for June 30, 2015
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015
Legislature passes $3.9 billion capital budget
OLYMPIA -- The Legislature passed a $3.9 billion capital budget that would spend millions on new classrooms around the state as well as money for school projects, park improvements and buildings at Spokane Community Colleges and Eastern Washington University.
Will Lege swap 1351 changes for assessment tests?
OLYMPIA -- A new roadblock may be developing in the Legislature's plans to suspend parts of last year's initiative that requires small class sizes throughout the K-12 system.
Update: Inslee signing operating budget sometime
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee will sign the $38.2 billion state operating budget sometime this evening, not at 3:30 p.m. as his office previously said.
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