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  • Unexpected consequences

    ALICE DAY, Reporter, WNPA Olympia News Bureau|Updated Feb 19, 2015

    OLYMPIA— I-1351, the voter-approved initiative last fall, requires the state to limit class sizes in grades K-12, but doesn’t provide an enabling funding source. It presumes funds would be allocated by the state so school districts could hire additional teachers to accommodate the reduction in class sizes mandated by the initiative, and to provide additional classroom space. Even with state funding support, yet to be determined, local school districts could be responsible for nearly half the estimated cost of imp...

  • Voters' demand: Lower class sizes; school districts' dilemma: Paying for it

    ALICE DAY, Reporter, WNPA Olympia News Bureau|Updated Feb 12, 2015

    OLYMPIA-School districts around Washington are priming their fiscal pumps in the coming weeks, asking local constituents to support special maintenance and operations tax propositions to maintain current programs, as well as bond measures to support facilities development and transportation needs. Meanwhile, at the state Capitol, lawmakers have yet to come to grips in the early days of the 2015 legislative session with education financing plans to meet the state Supreme...