| TITLE |
AUTHOR |
DATE |
SUMMARY |
 Referendum 55: Charter Schools |
WRC |
10/1/2004 |
After the legislature adopted charter school legislation, opponents gathered the signatures required to put the measure before the voters. Referendum 55, if ad... |
| Education Initiative 884: Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain? |
WRC |
6/22/2004 |
Public education inWashington would receive a cash infusion of more than one billion dollars annually if voters adopt Initiative 884. The initiative, promoted b... |
| Flexibility the Key to Rational Tuition Policy |
WRC |
2/12/2001 |
Gov. Locke proposes to let the states' colleges and universities determine the rates of tuition paid by their students. In 1997, the Research Council recommende... |
| More and Better Schools with Repeal of Prevailing Wage |
WRC |
12/20/2000 |
Washington’s law requiring construction firms to pay their workers “prevailing” wages when working on public projects needlessly inflates the costs of tho... |
| Initiative 732: Expensive COLA |
WRC |
9/27/2000 |
Initiative 732 mandates an annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for K-12 school employees and most employees of community and technical colleges. It signific... |
| Initiative 729: A Cautious First Step Toward Charter Schools |
WRC |
9/27/2000 |
Initiative 729 asks voters to decide whether Washington shall allow for charter public schools. These schools give parents, teachers and administrators much for... |
| Initiative 728: More Money for Schools, Poor Fiscal Policy |
WRC |
9/26/2000 |
To increase public school spending, Initiative 728 would amend Initiative 601, earmark state property tax and lottery revenues, and create a new dedicated fund.... |
| Class Size and Public School Spending |
WRC |
2/29/2000 |
Per pupil spending in Washington is about average for the nation, but class sizes are among the largest. The discrepancy can be explained by looking at the sta... |
| House Action on Charter Schools Expected |
WRC |
2/2/2000 |
Four times since 1994 legislation authorizing charter schools cleared the legislature’s House only to founder in the Senate Education Committee. This year, la... |
| Tacoma School District $450 Million Bond Issue |
WRC |
1/24/2000 |
February 6, 2001, voters in the Tacoma Public School (TPS) district will be asked to approve a $450 million construction and remodeling plan. The district inte... |
| Schools Would Benefit from Repeal of Prevailing Wage |
WRC |
12/20/1999 |
Washington’s law requiring construction firms to pay their workers “prevailing” wages when working on public projects needlessly inflates the costs of tho... |
| The Economic Value of Higher Education |
WRC |
6/22/1999 |
Research shows that higher education can add significantly to the subsequent earnings of some students. Returns vary, however, with such factors as family backg... |
| Washington's Community and Technical Colleges |
WRC |
6/11/1999 |
Two-year colleges, an American invention, contribute greatly to the academic and occupational training needs of thousands of students in Washington. The first o... |
| Generous Pay Raises for Teachers |
WRC |
4/9/1999 |
The Legislature is poised to give large pay hikes to teachers. Claims that teachers have lost 15.5 percent to inflation since 1992 are not accurate. |
| Capacity Not Currently a Problem at Four-Year Schools |
WRC |
3/17/1999 |
The most recent Applications Match Study finds that nearly every qualified undergraduate applicant is able to gain admission to a public college, though perhaps... |
| Tuition: Will Students Take a Hike? |
WRC |
2/23/1999 |
Proposals to allow the state's public colleges and universities to set their own tuition rates are now before the legislature. |
| No Harm to Schools from Referendum 49 |
WRC |
2/15/1999 |
Backers of Referendum 49 repeatedly assured voters that passage of the measure would not jeopardize school funding. Opponents argued transferring some $450 mil... |
| 1999 - 2001 Higher Education Budget General Fund State Highlights |
WRC |
2/12/1999 |
Gov. Locke has proposed $2,506 million in General Fund-State (GFS) spending on higher education in the 1999-01 biennium, up $297.4 million from the $2,209 milli... |
| 1999-2001 K-12 Budget General Fund State Highlights |
WRC |
2/5/1999 |
The Washington Assessment of Student Learning tests administered last Spring revealed that many fourth and seventh graders failed to meet state standards for re... |
| Trends in Higher Education Finance |
WRC |
2/5/1999 |
Washington is spending more on higher education now than in the 1970s, when the babyboomers were in college. But the proportion of the state's budget devoted t... |
