Bill would partner state with online university

Railroad mechanical worker Luke Trapp has a schedule that changes from week to week, and the 24-year-old Seattle resident doesn't know if he'll be living in Seattle next year — or next month. So when he wanted to get his bachelor's degree in business management, he decided he could not be tied down to a class schedule at a single location.

Trapp signed up for classes at Western Governors University (WGU), a private, not-for-profit online school founded in 1997 by the governors of 19 Western states, including Washington.