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Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday used his State of the State address to double down on his sweeping budget proposals to spend more on education and transportation, and to tax carbon pollution and capital gains.

In his annual speech to a joint session of the state House and…

Republicans in the state Senate opened the 2015 legislative session Monday by making it harder to pass taxes in the Legislature’s upper chamber, potentially presenting a challenge to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s idea to tax carbon pollution and capital gains.

The Senate approved a rule…

Free college? That’s crazy talk.

That’s how President Obama’s idea to make community college free was greeted by many last week. It’s too costly, some Republicans said. It’s an undeserved handout. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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The number of home-schooled children continues to rise in the country - now up to an estimated 2.2 million, including thousands in the Kansas City area.

Public oversight of home schooling? Not so much, The Kansas City Star reports.

The 105-day legislative session begins Monday with the expectation that it could be a tough few months for lawmakers who return to town under a contempt order by a state Supreme Court that has grown increasingly more impatient with their progress on fixing the way the state pays for basic…

Leaders of Washington state's Legislature are going to spend the next several months debating whether to raise taxes, or create new ones, in order to answer the Supreme Court's demand to put more money into public schools.

The tax debate was prominent and somewhat heated on…

President Obama is going big with his higher education announcement in Tennessee on Friday. He wants to make the first two years of community college as free as high school.
“To make sure that community college is accessible for everybody,” Obama said in a video message released Thursday…

I LOOK at Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget proposal through one lens: implications for higher education’s ability to serve Washington. While the budget represents real leadership, significant work must be done to shore up funding for higher education.

Washington’s revenue…

Gov. Jay Inslee rolled out highlights of his education budget Monday, saying he wants to reduce average class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, pay for all-day public kindergarten and reinstate cost-of-living raises for teachers that the voters approved years ago.
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