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| Tuition freeze small step in right direction | As the Washington legislative session wrapped up, our legislators finally took at least one important step in the right direction. Or rather, they stopped going in the wrong direction. |
2013-07-17 | |
| Senate leader suggests fines to speed work | After an overtime legislative session that brought Washington to the brink of a government shutdown, the state’s top senator says lawmakers need greater incentive to finish on time — the monetary kind. Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, D-Medina, said he plans to introduce legislation… |
2013-07-09 | |
| Editorial: Congress must reverse doubling of student-loan interest rates | CONGRESS squandered a year of potential progress on student-loan interest rates. The result of its inaction was a sharp rise in rates on Monday. |
2013-07-02 | |
| Student loan interest rate doubles. Government could pay more, too. | Millions of college students woke up Monday to a new reality: The interest rate on their new subsidized Stafford loans – the most popular federal student loan program – doubled overnight. |
2013-07-02 | |
| Gov. Inslee signs operating budget that ensures government can operate Monday | Gov. Jay Inslee put pen to paper and signed an operating budget Sunday afternoon that authorizes spending by state government agencies for the next two years. Lawmakers had approved the plan Friday evening just in time to head off a government shutdown on July 1. |
2013-07-01 | |
| ‘Step forward’: College tuition frozen for at least a year | After four straight years of bad news, Washington’s colleges and universities got a much-needed lift on Friday when the Legislature boosted higher-education funding and froze tuition rates. |
2013-07-01 | |
| Editorial: State budget rightly focuses on education | THE threat of a government shutdown Monday drove lawmakers to reach a budget compromise, averting a far-reaching financial disaster. |
2013-07-01 | |
| Interest rates on new college student loans double, but Congress could restore low rates later | College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. |
2013-07-01 | |
| President Shepard sends message to campus regarding new budget | 2013-06-28 | ||
| Interest rates on student loans set to double next week | U.S. senators headed home for a Fourth of July recess without passing a bill that would prevent interest rates from doubling on student loans next week, leading to a ramp-up of political finger-pointing. |
2013-06-28 |