Education Publications

Title	Author	Publication Date	Summary
Referendum 55: Charter Schools	WRC	Oct 01, 2004 12:00 AM	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	Jun 22, 2004 12:00 AM	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	Feb 12, 2001 12:00 AM	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...
Flexibility the Key to Rational Tuition Policy	WRC	Feb 12, 2001 12:00 AM	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...
Initiative 732: Expensive COLA	WRC	Sep 27, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Sep 27, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Sep 26, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Feb 29, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Feb 02, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Jan 24, 2000 12:00 AM	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	Dec 20, 1999 12:00 AM	Washington’s law requiring construction firms to pay their workers “prevailing” wages when working on public projects needlessly inflates the costs of tho...
More and Better Schools with Repeal of Prevailing Wage	WRC	Dec 20, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Jun 22, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Jun 11, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Apr 09, 1999 12:00 AM	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.
Generous Pay Raises for Teachers	WRC	Apr 09, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Mar 17, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Feb 23, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Feb 15, 1999 12:00 AM	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	Feb 12, 1999 12:00 AM	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...