Gov. Jay Inslee signs new two-year state budget
The bipartisan budget agreement spends an estimated $1.3 billion on K-12 basic education, and it phases in tuition cuts at the state's universities, as well as community and technical colleges. Lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate had struggled for months on the two-year state budget because of differing ideas on how to address a state Supreme Court mandate to put more money into the state's basic education system. The budget also fully pays for collective... Читать дальше...