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Opinion: Fact Check – Washington's income tax initiative doesn't ‘cut’ government programs
Washington won't collect income tax revenue until 2029, yet the ballot impact statement implies cuts are imminent.
Battle Ground Public Schools secures funding for athletics programs
Donations from individuals and foundry10 met fundraising goals for golf, gymnastics, swimming, and bowling at BGPS.
Letter: Public school vision
…esident Larry Roe urges a deeper community discussion about public school priorities, levy funding, and the long-term affordability of education for local families.
WA superintendent of public schools candidates agree state’s funding model flawed
WA public schools’ candidates agree on flaws in the state’s education funding model.
Letter: ‘Parents recognize the substandard education their kids are receiving in our public schools’
Battle Ground resident Jack Roscoe weighs in on the funding issues in Washington’s public schools.
Opinion: State Board of Education pushes for more charter schools and calls for equitable funding
The State Board of Education just published its seventh Annual Report on the performance of Washington’s 18 charter public schools.
Opinion: Proposed bill would cut funding to schools that do not adopt controversial state-imposed curriculum
…e main reasons polls show a loss of faith in so many of our public institutions is the decline in the quality of public education and the trend of parents pulling their children out of the system.
Opinion: HB 2494, to add more funding to amply funded public schools, will not help students
…iv Finne of the Washington Policy Center believes that what public education needs is not more money, but more common sense reforms.
Vancouver Public Schools receives grant from the Department of Education to support student mental health
Vancouver Public Schools is one of several hundred schools in the country to receive funding from a school-based mental health services grant program…
Letter: ‘If we do vote for the schools to have more funding, we can help students get a better education’
…resident Ellee Nichols offers her support for the Vancouver Public Schools levy on the Feb. 14 special election ballot.
Opinion: Systemic discrimination in the public schools; legislature cuts funding for public charter schools’
Liv Finne, director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, comments on the decision of majority lawmakers to cut the charter school make-up funding in the f…
Letter: ‘Local funding is essential because the state only pays for 87.5 percent of the total education cost of Woodland Public Schools’
…urges voters to approve a new operations levy for Woodland Public Schools.